High Availability – MariaDB https://mariadb.com Open Source Database (RDBMS) for the Enterprise Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:06:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 BNETS Bets on MariaDB Enterprise Server for Banking Across Suriname https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/bnets-bets-on-mariadb-enterprise-server-for-banking-across-suriname/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 16:00:58 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=38214 Continued]]> Suriname is a small country with about 600,000 people in population located on the northeastern coast of South America. Credit cards are not widely accepted in the country so having access to cash is extremely important. Banking Network Suriname (BNETS) is the only payments switch in Suriname and operates many of the ATMs in the country. We chatted with Andrew Jong, Chief Information Officer at...

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]]> MaxScale Installation and Configuration https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/maxscale-installation-and-configuration/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:00:43 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=37851 Continued]]> In our many years of experience working with databases, one of the most important things we’ve seen is how to connect to the database layer easily, while allowing for maintenance or unplanned failures of the database servers. Changing database connections manually requires human intervention and therefore lots of room for error. MariaDB MaxScale enables seamless switchovers for maintenance...

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]]> Configuring MariaDB Databases for Disaster Recovery for Self-Hosted ServiceNow Deployments https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/configuring-mariadb-databases-for-disaster-recovery-for-self-hosted-servicenow-deployments/ Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:31:43 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=36789 Continued]]> If your organization wants to use ServiceNow, but has security, regulatory, or privacy requirements which make ServiceNow Cloud non-viable, then you’re going to need to deploy self-hosted ServiceNow to your organization’s secure datacenter(s). While ServiceNow gives you all the instructions and help you’ll need to get the application components setup and running for that, your self-hosted setup...

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]]> Is your App continuously available with AWS RDS? https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/is-your-app-continuously-available-with-aws-rds/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:07:08 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=36581 Continued]]> Arguably, one of the key motivations for using a managed DBaaS is its availability characteristics. But, did you know that Applications using AWS RDS (MySQL/MariaDB) often experience outages? If the primary database in a replicated configuration fails there is a good chance that the app connections break and you will experience an outage that can take over 2 mins to heal. In this post we compare...

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]]> MariaDB Xpand’s Levels of High Availability and Disaster Recovery https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/mariadb-xpands-levels-of-high-availability-and-disaster-recovery/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:31:16 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=34599 Continued]]> A hurricane in New York, a wildfire in California, a flood in Germany or a record heatwave in the UK – whether its mother earth showing off or something more mundane, are you ready for it? There are several different ways to ensure both availability and recoverability for cloud applications, which I review in detail in this article in Disaster Recovery Journal, Creating Cloud Applications that...

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]]> MariaDB MaxScale 6.0 Native Clustering https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/mariadb-maxscale-6-0-native-clustering/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 17:39:24 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=32605 Continued]]> MaxScale 6.0 introduced native clustering, allowing several MaxScale instances to communicate and share configuration updates with each other. In this blog post, We are going to explain how the feature works and demonstrate how to implement it. Centralized MaxScale Server This is the most common installation, where MaxScale is between application servers and the database. It is simple...

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]]> Getting started with the MariaDB MaxScale GUI https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/getting-started-with-the-mariadb-maxscale-gui/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:45:55 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=25814 MariaDB MaxScale is an advanced database proxy and a core component of MariaDB Platform – powering its enterprise high availability, scalability, security and integration services. MariaDB MaxScale 2.5 delivers many new features, including MaxScale GUI, a graphic user interface for managing MaxScale. The MaxScale GUI provides an alternative to using the MaxCtrl command-line utility or directly...

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]]> Lightboard Session: Automated Failover with MariaDB Databases https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/lightboard-session-automated-failover-with-mariadb-databases/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 16:23:15 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=13880 Continued]]> This is the first in a series of short lightboard talks highlighting popular database topics. In this five-minute session, you’ll learn how the MariaDB MaxScale database proxy works with multiple MariaDB instances to support high availability using a primary/replica architecture. Hi, my name is Manjot Singh. I’m here to talk to you about MariaDB’s classic replication model. A lot of times you have...

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]]> JSON with MariaDB Platform: What Is JSON and Why Use It – With Examples https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/json-with-mariadb-10-2/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:20:00 +0000 https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/json-with-mariadb-10-2/ Continued]]> This is an update of the popular post on JSON with MariaDB 10.2. We’ve brought the details up-to-date with the latest MariaDB releases. What is JSON and why use it? JSON is fast becoming the standard format for data interchange and for unstructured data, and MariaDB Platform (in fact, all MariaDB versions 10.2 and later) include a range of JSON supporting functions. There are a few good reasons...

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]]> Announcing MariaDB MaxScale 2.3 GA https://mariadb.com/resources/blog/announcing-mariadb-maxscale-2-3-ga/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:03:47 +0000 https://mariadb.com/?p=7774 Continued]]> We are happy to announce the general availability of MariaDB MaxScale 2.3.2. MariaDB MaxScale is the key application-facing component for MariaDB Platform X3, also announced today. MariaDB MaxScale serves as the integrated data access entry point of MariaDB Platform that hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) applications connect to. MariaDB MaxScale 2.3 allows applications to send...

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