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ScaleGrid is happy to announce the general availability of our Redis hosting services in all of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers. Redis on ScaleGrid provides a high performance, on… Read More

ScaleGrid is happy to announce the general availability of our MongoDB Hosting and management services in the AWS Canada Central region. Our fully managed MongoDB hosting services let you lo… Read More

ScaleGrid Announces Shared MongoDB Hosting on AWS PALO ALTO, Dec. 7, 2017 – ScaleGrid, a rising leader in database hosting and management, has just announced shared hosting for their M… Read More

7th Annual Talkin’ Cloud 100 Report Identifies Top Cloud Services Providers December 14, 2017: ScaleGrid ranks among the world’s Top 100 cloud services providers (CSPs), accordin… Read More

International Cloud Computing Program Announces Shortlist Palo Alto – 20 December 2017 – ScaleGrid is a finalist in the 2017-2018 Cloud Awards Program in the category Best Cloud… Read More

We are pleased to share that ScaleGrid has made the shortlist for the Computing Cloud Excellence Awards 2018 for the Cloud Data Management Solution of the Year category! ScaleGrid&rsquo… Read More

PALO ALTO, July 31, 2018 – ScaleGrid, a rising leader in MongoDB hosting and Redis hosting, has just announced the warm welcoming of Sunitha Ray, Chief Customer Evangelist, to lead ent… Read More

PALO ALTO, Calif., November 6, 2018 – ScaleGrid, a rising leader in MongoDB hosting and Redis hosting, has just announced support for their first SQL database, fully managed MySQL host… Read More

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

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

MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB hosting fully managed on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean clouds.View startup Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Difference Between MongoDB vs Elasticsearch The world now revolves around big data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It’s no doubt that it has made our lives mu… Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introduction to SQLite Alternatives The following article provides an outline for SQLite Alternatives. SQLite is a library of applications offering a relational framework for database admin… Read More

Difference between Neo4j vs MongoDB Neo4j is known to be the best-renowned graph DBMS which is a NoSQL database system that is created by Neo4j.Inc. It is different in comparison to that of… Read More

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

Introduction to MongoDB Hosting MongoDB hosting is the process to deploy and manage the application for use by others. The architecture of Mongo DB is scale-out and based on documents that… Read More

According to market research report “Database Security Market by Component (Solution and Services), Business function (Marketing, sales, finance, operations), Organization Si… Read More

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

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

ScaleGrid Website: www.scalegrid.io Number of employees: 50 Revenues: $10 million Profits: $2 million Stock price: $25 Location: San Francisco, California Address: 1234 Main Street, San Fran… Read More