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MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment - Part 1
MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced, plug-in database proxy for MariaDB database servers. It sits between client applications and the database servers, routing client queries and server responses. MaxScale...
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MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Management - Part 2
This blog post is a continuation of MariaDB MaxScale Load Balancing on Docker: Deployment - Part1. In this part, we are going to focus more on management operations with advanced use cases like...
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How to Use Failover Mechanism of MaxScale
Ever since ClusterControl 1.2.11 was released in 2015, MariaDB MaxScale has been supported as a database load balancer. Over the years MaxScale has grown and matured, adding several rich features....
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The Command Line Interface to ClusterControl
s9s is our official command line tool to interact with ClusterControl. We’re pretty excited about this, as we believe its ease of use and script-ability will make our users even more productive. Let’s...
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MySQL, MongoDB or PostgreSQL DBA Webinar Replays
Those of you who already follow us know that we’ve been running a number of blog series for some time now that we also deliver as webinar series.These blog series include:Become a MySQL DBABecome a...
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MySQL Replication Failover - MaxScale vs MHA: Part Four
In the earlier blogs in this series, we concluded that MaxScale with MariaDB Replication Manager still has some way to go as a failover solution.The failover mechanism relied on MariaDB GTID, needed a...
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How to Install and Configure MaxScale for MariaDB
There are different reasons for adding a load balancer between your application and your database. If you have high traffic (and you want to balance the traffic between different database nodes) or you...
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How to Replace an Intermediate MySQL or MariaDB Master with a Binlog Server...
Binary logs (binlogs) contain records of all changes to the databases. They are necessary for replication and can also be used to restore data after a backup. A binlog server is basically a binary log...
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Database Load Balancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud...
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Introduction to MaxScale Administration Using maxctrl for MariaDB Cluster
MariaDB Cluster consists of MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster and MariaDB MaxScale. As a multi-master replication solution, any MariaDB Server with Galera Cluster can operate as a primary server. This...
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What's New in MariaDB MaxScale 2.4
MaxScale 2.4 was released on December 21st, 2019, and ClusterControl 1.7.6 supports the monitoring and managing up to this version. However, for deployment, ClusterControl only supports up to version...
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Deploying MariaDB Replication for High Availability
MariaDB Server offers asynchronous and synchronous replication. It can be set up to have a multi-source replication or with a multi-master setup. For a read and write intensive application, a...
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In the previous blog post, we have covered some introductions to MaxScale installation, upgrade, and deployment using MaxCtrl command-line client. In this blog post, we are going to cover the MaxScale...
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How Load Balancing Works with DBaaS Setups
Database as a Service (DBaaS) takes away the pain of operating a database. So as a user, when you decide to use a DBaas from a cloud service provider, you would only know the database version, size of...
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MaxScale Basic Management Using MaxCtrl for MariaDB Cluster - Part Two
In the previous blog post, we have covered 4 basic management components using the MaxCtrl command-line client. In this blog post, we are going to cover the remaining part of the MaxScale components...
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Migrating from Maxscale to the ProxySQL Load Balancer
A database load balancer, or proxy, is a middleware service between application layer and database layer. Application connects to the database proxy, and the proxy forwards the connection to the...
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What is MariaDB Enterprise and How to Manage it with ClusterControl?
Have you ever wondered what products MariaDB Enterprise has to offer? Is it different from MariaDB Community? Can I manage them with ClusterControl?MariaDB provides two distributions of their software...
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