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Nov 20, 2019

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL™ Tables – Rolling Index Builds

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you...

Oct 31, 2019

What’s the Best PostgreSQL® High Availability Framework? PAF vs. repmgr vs. Patroni Infographic

Wondering which high availability framework to use for your PostgreSQL deployments? We compared the top 3 frameworks, PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF)...

Oct 24, 2019

How to Improve MySQL™ AWS Performance 2X Over Amazon RDS at The Same Cost

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue...

Oct 17, 2019

PostgreSQL® Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted....

Oct 7, 2019

PostgreSQL® Trends: Most Popular Cloud Providers, Languages, VACUUM, Query Management Strategies & Deployment Types in Enterprise

PostgreSQL popularity is skyrocketing in the enterprise space. As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive...

Aug 30, 2019

Top Redis® Use Cases by Core Data Structure Types

Redis, short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by...

Aug 22, 2019

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL® – Part III: Patroni

In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and...

Aug 15, 2019

Which is the Best MongoDB® GUI? — 2019 Update

A good UI is an important part of the development experience. The MongoDB Shell works great for administrative actions, but...

Jul 29, 2019

How to Setup a WordPress MySQL™ Database in the Cloud

WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the Internet today....

Jul 8, 2019

The Best Way to Host MySQL™ on Azure Cloud

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should set up...

Jun 18, 2019

Connecting MongoDB® to Ruby with Self-Signed Certificates for SSL

Given the popularity of our post on connecting MongoDB SSL with Self-Signed Certificates in Node.js, we decided to write a tutorial...

Jun 11, 2019

2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether...

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