2024-03-28 22:41
Choosing between Redis and Memcached hinges on specific application requirements. In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data stor… Read More
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2024-03-22 21:24
Thinking about going multi-cloud? A well-planned multi cloud strategy can seriously upgrade your business’s tech game, making you more agile. Instead of being stuck with one cloud prov… Read More
2024-03-14 22:02
Mastering Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Are you looking to leverage the best private and public cloud worlds to propel your business forward? A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer. This appro… Read More
2024-03-08 19:32
Data loss or corruption can be daunting. With MySQL point-in-time recovery, you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs.
This article delivers a practical roadmap f… Read More
2024-02-15 21:42
In a world where data security is essential, enabling MongoDB SSL is critical in fortifying your database. This guide walks you through implementing SSL/TLS encryption for MongoDB. Each sect… Read More
2024-02-08 16:50
A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. This guide delves int… Read More
2024-02-01 23:02
Regarding MySQL backups, knowing how to secure your data is crucial. This guide cuts through the complexity, providing instructions on creating, managing, and automating a MySQL backup. Dive… Read More
2024-01-25 14:33
Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already… Read More
2024-01-19 18:40
When a MongoDB rollback happens, it can cause trouble to your data integrity and system consistency. Understanding how to address a rollback is critical for minimizing potential data loss an… Read More
2024-01-12 16:11
What is workload in cloud computing? Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running com… Read More
2024-01-12 00:00
What does it take to secure your cloud assets effectively? Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate. This article str… Read More
2024-01-10 06:14
What does strong enterprise cloud security entail, and how can you achieve it? With the prevalence of cyber threats and regulatory pressures, safeguarding your enterprise’s cloud infra… Read More
2024-01-09 06:01
Confused about multi-cloud vs hybrid cloud and which is the right strategy for your organization? Multicloud harnesses diverse cloud services to boost flexibility, while hybrid cloud merges… Read More
2024-01-08 08:36
Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.
This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and re… Read More
2024-01-06 05:19
What are the key advantages of DBMS? Enhanced data security, better data integrity, and efficient access to information. If you’re considering a database management system, understandi… Read More
2023-12-28 18:11
Managing vast datasets effectively is an essential requirement for modern applications, and MongoDB, a leading NoSQL database, offers robust solutions for this requirement. One such solution… Read More
2023-12-21 08:01
In today’s data-driven world, the ability to effectively monitor and manage data is of paramount importance. Redis®, a powerful in-memory data store, is no exception. With its wide… Read More
2023-12-14 09:50
How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases.
Mongo… Read More
2023-12-07 07:00
In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are… Read More
2023-11-30 07:41
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a str… Read More
2023-11-23 10:18
Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. It’s possible, but only if you master the art of configuring hostnames properly.
In this blog p… Read More
2022-05-05 15:13
In this blog post, we will show you a step-by-step guide on how to install and set up a MySQL server both manually on the Ubuntu 20.04 operating system, as well as by using ScaleGrid’s… Read More
2022-04-08 21:03
Replicating the information stored on your database is essential for distributing data and ensuring you have a backup that can be used for disaster recovery, in case something goes wrong. Po… Read More
2022-03-31 04:04
Understanding the Postgres EXPLAIN cost EXPLAIN is very useful for understanding the performance of a Postgres query. It returns the execution plan generated by PostgreSQL query planner for… Read More
2022-03-15 21:38
Since our release of our fully managed dedicated database hosting on DigitalOcean, we have gotten many questions regarding the potential support for Bring Your Own Cloud on DigitalOcean. Tod… Read More
2022-03-10 19:19
PostgreSQL Features and Use Cases PostgreSQL is an open-source Object-relational Database Management System (DBMS). It’s an advanced database management and analysis system that’… Read More
2021-11-25 19:35
Migrating ScaleGrid for Redis™ data from one server to another is a common requirement that we hear from our customers. Two of the main reasons we hear are often due to migration of ha… Read More
2021-11-04 16:55
PostgreSQL is a widely-used, enterprise-grade, and open-source relational database management system and is the fourth most popular database in the world according to DB-Engines. It is an RD… Read More
2021-10-13 15:47
Do you want to know why a PostgreSQL query is slow? Then EXPLAIN ANALYZE is a great starting point. But query plans can depend on other server activity, can take a while to run, and can chan… Read More
2021-09-12 23:58
PostgreSQL also introduced many other breakthrough features in versions 10 through 11, 12 and 13 that make it a real competitor against Oracle, such as partitioning enhancements, parallel qu… Read More
2021-08-16 10:14
Guest post by Ben Hagan from PolyScale.ai Data-driven applications span a wide breadth of complexity, from simple microservices to real-time event-driven systems under significant load. Howe… Read More
2021-07-20 14:14
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 20, 2021 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider with its headquarters in Palo Alto, CA and with offices in Bangalore, India and Vancouver… Read More
2021-07-01 22:09
Collecting detailed logs is a critical step when debugging connection related issues with MongoDB. In this short post, we will show how to enable logging on the MongoDB Node.JS driver and Mo… Read More
2021-06-25 23:32
ScaleGrid recently partnered up with VMware to create a solution that integrates the powerful features of a PostgreSQL DBaaS on vSphere with advanced added support for vVols, allowing DBAs t… Read More
2021-06-11 20:18
At ScaleGrid we always strive to make our service as user friendly and value adding as possible. Some of our users have been wanting to save on their database machine costs during periods wh… Read More
2021-04-23 19:32
Redis stands for REmote DIctionary Server, created in 2009 by Salvatore Sanfilippo. Memcached, on the other hand, was created in 2003 by Brad Fitzpatrick. Both Redis and Memcached are: NoSQL… Read More
2021-04-09 07:01
In the second and final part of our mysqldump best practices we will talk about how to handle the migration and import for stored program objects and views from your MySQL database. To read… Read More
2021-03-30 07:01
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 30, 2021 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) through their fully ma… Read More
2021-03-02 23:44
When considering a new cloud provider, the big names come to mind - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. If you’re a developer, you might even be considering a dev-friendly cloud like D… Read More
2021-02-05 19:02
MySQL is the number one open source relational database management system in the world, and is used by millions of developers across all application types. DigitalOcean, a fast-growing cloud… Read More
2021-01-15 01:40
Auditing in information technology (IT) is a process of examining an organization’s IT infrastructure to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed by recognized standards or esta… Read More
2020-12-16 20:34
Mysqldump is a client utility that is used to perform logical backups of the MySQL database. This popular migration tool is useful for various use cases of MySQL such as: Backup and restore… Read More
2020-11-26 15:47
Redis is an advanced key-value store. In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has t… Read More
2020-11-04 15:20
MySQL configuration variables are a set of server system variables used to configure the operation and behavior of the server. In this blog post, we will explain the differences in managing… Read More
2020-10-14 14:20
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 14, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced the launch of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) hosting through their fu… Read More
2020-09-18 17:04
When deploying MongoDB in production, it is strongly recommended that you use an SSL-enabled geo-distributed replica-set configuration for maximum security and availability. ScaleGrid provid… Read More
2020-08-26 13:30
Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the… Read More
2020-07-29 14:33
In our previous posts in this series, we spoke at length about using PgBouncer and Pgpool-II, the connection pool architecture and pros and cons of leveraging one for your PostgreSQL deploym… Read More
2020-07-17 15:46
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is an open standard format which organizes data into key/value pairs and arrays detailed in RFC 7159. JSON is the most common format used by we… Read More
2020-07-13 17:59
Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world… Read More
2020-07-08 14:40
Redis offers two mechanisms for handling transactions – MULTI/EXEC based transactions and Lua scripts evaluation. Redis Lua scripting is the recommended approach and is fairly popular… Read More
2020-06-30 16:03
Index builds on MongoDB production clusters need to be handled with the utmost care. We have documented the issues in detail in one of our previous blog posts – The Perils of Bui… Read More
2020-06-22 19:07
MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affor… Read More
2020-06-09 12:15
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on Digi… Read More
2020-06-04 17:26
DigitalOcean is a cost-effective cloud provider that caters to, and is widely adopted by the developer community. ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis… Read More
2020-05-22 16:51
MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology. However, as the number of slaves increases, they will have a toll on the master… Read More
2020-05-13 16:33
Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single iss… Read More
2020-04-28 17:26
If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent… Read More
2020-04-16 18:26
Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. But, if you… Read More
2020-03-23 20:31
In our previous posts in this series, we discussed the case for connection pooling and introduced PgBouncer. In this post, we will discuss its most popular alternative – Pgpool-II.
Pgp… Read More
2020-03-23 17:55
Customers & Friends,
With the impact of COVID-19 growing around the world, we are taking proactive steps to prepare our infrastructure to continue seamlessly as we navigate this critical… Read More
2020-02-17 18:52
In a MySQL master-slave high availability (HA) setup, it is important to continuously monitor the health of the master and slave servers so you can detect potential issues and take correctiv… Read More
2020-01-20 18:28
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain… Read More
2020-01-03 19:23
Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. It’s also a go… Read More
2019-12-19 20:00
When it comes to connection pooling in the PostgreSQL world, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits… Read More
2019-12-16 19:08
MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is levera… Read More
2019-12-09 20:53
In a MySQL 5.7 master-slave setup that uses the default semisynchronous replication setting for rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_point, a crash of the master and failover to the slave is considered… Read More
2019-11-25 19:15
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. Released just four years ago in 2015, Scylla has averaged over 220% year-ov… Read More
2019-11-20 17:42
By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive… Read More
2019-11-12 20:59
The past several years have seen increasing adoption for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. Feature-wise, it is up there with the best, if not the best. There are… Read More
2019-10-31 15:49
Wondering which high availability framework to use for your PostgreSQL deployments? We compared the top 3 frameworks, PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) vs. Replication Manager (repmgr… Read More
2019-10-24 16:03
AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in fr… Read More
2019-10-17 15:38
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, ‘threads’ were a programming novelty rarely used and seldom trusted. In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forki… Read More
2019-10-07 17:09
PostgreSQL popularity is skyrocketing in the enterprise space. As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2… Read More
2019-10-02 11:00
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redi… Read More
2019-10-02 11:00
PALO ALTO, Calif., October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Redis on Azure service. T… Read More
2019-09-16 18:45
PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. In this post, we discuss the top 5 GUI tools for admini… Read More
2019-08-30 16:02
Redis, short for Remote Dictionary Server, is a BSD-licensed, open-source in-memory key-value data structure store written in C language by Salvatore Sanfillipo and was first released on May… Read More
2019-08-22 16:34
In our previous blog posts, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by Cluster Labs and Replication Manager (repmgr) by 2ndQuadrant. In the final… Read More
2019-07-29 19:55
WordPress is the largest website builder platform in the world, supporting over 34% of all websites on the internet today. MySQL is a free open source relational database management system t… Read More
2019-07-17 13:00
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 17, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. The fully managed pla… Read More
2019-07-08 19:39
Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL perf… Read More
2019-06-18 15:05
Given the popularity of our post on connecting MongoDB SSL with Self-Signed Certificates in Node.js, we decided to write a tutorial on connecting MongoDB with Ruby. In this blog, w… Read More
2019-06-11 16:57
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs… Read More
2019-06-06 13:15
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid, the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting servi… Read More
2019-05-13 19:04
MySQL Server generates several logs that can help you monitor the activities of the server. However, once these logs are enabled, they can grow in size and start taking up too much disk spac… Read More
2019-05-02 15:00
Python is a powerful and flexible programming language used by millions of developers around the world to build their applications. It comes as no surprise that Python developers c… Read More
2019-04-16 13:42
In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II… Read More
2019-04-02 16:14
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row… Read More
2019-03-12 15:10
Are you deploying PostgreSQL in the cloud and want to understand your options for achieving high availability? In our previous blog post, Managing High Availability in Po… Read More
2019-03-04 15:53
Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL… Read More
2019-02-11 16:57
Want to deploy WordPress 5.0 on the Now platform by ZEIT? Our friends over at ZEIT’s Now global serverless deployment platform whipped up a great tutorial for WordPress5-on-Now us… Read More
2019-02-07 17:19
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tool… Read More
2019-01-30 17:55
In a MySQL hosting replication setup, the parameter Seconds_Behind_Master (SBM), as displayed by the SHOW SLAVE STATUS command, is commonly used as an indication of the current replication l… Read More
2019-01-24 15:04
PALO ALTO, Calif., January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis… Read More
2019-01-17 18:21
Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is a popular desktop graphical user interface (GUI) for your MongoDB hosting deployments that allows you to interact with your data through visual indi… Read More
2019-01-08 17:43
In Part I, we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Now in Part II, we will discuss the details of MySQL s… Read More
2019-01-04 20:16
This post was written by Wendy Dessler of The Blog Frog.
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world. These software platform solutions hel… Read More
2018-12-28 15:36
At ScaleGrid, we’re proud to share that we’ve made the 10 Best Startups in Cloud – 2018 list by SiliconIndia. Check out our story written by SiliconIndia below to see… Read More
2018-12-06 19:30
Have you been experiencing slow MySQL startup times in GTID mode? We recently ran into this issue on one of our MySQL hosting deployments and set out to solve the problem. In this blog… Read More
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