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A Performance Cheat Sheet for MongoDB
Database performance affects organizational performance, and we tend to want to look for a quick fix. There are many different avenues to improve performance in MongoDB. In this blog, we will help you...
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Planning & Managing Schemas in MongoDB (Even Though It’s Schemaless)
When MongoDB was introduced, the main feature highlighted was it’s ability to be “schemaless”. What does it mean? It means that one can store JSON documents, each with different structure, in the same...
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ClusterControl Release 1.6.2: New Backup Management and Security Features for...
We are excited to announce the 1.6.2 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily automate and manage highly available open source databases in any...
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An Introduction to MongoDB Zone Basics
MongoDB ZonesTo understand MongoDB Zones, we must first understand what a Zone is: a group of shards based on a specific set of tags.MongoDB Zones help in the distribution of chunks based on tags,...
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Monitoring your Databases with ClusterControl
Observability is critical piece of the operations puzzle - you have to be able to tell the state of your system based on data. Ideally, this data will be available from a single location. Having...
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A Review of MongoDB Backup Options
Database backup is nothing but a way to protect or restore data. It is the process of storing the operational state, architecture, and data of your database. It can be very useful in situations of...
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How to Monitor your Database Servers using ClusterControl CLI
How would you like to merge "top" process for all your 5 database nodes and sort by CPU usage with just a one-liner command? Yeah, you read it right! How about interactive graphs display in the...
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MongoDB Aggregation Framework Stages and Pipelining - New Whitepaper
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper MongoDB Aggregation Framework Stages and Pipelinings is now available to download for free!In this whitepaper, we deep-dive into MongoDB’s Aggregation...
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How ClusterControl Monitors your Database Servers and Clusters Agentlessly
ClusterControl’s agentless approach allows sysadmins and DBAs to monitoring their databases without having to install agent software on each monitored system. Monitoring is implemented using a remote...
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New Webinar - Free Monitoring (on Steroids) for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL...
Monitoring is essential for operations teams to ensure that databases are up and running. However, as databases are increasingly being deployed in distributed topologies based on replication or...
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A Developer’s Guide to MongoDB Replica Sets
MongoDB often involves working with a large set of data including embedded arrays and array objects. Therefore, it is always important to ensure your database processing rate is as fast as possible to...
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Overview of the MongoDB Database Profiler
Any type of database faces performance issues when data grows. Simple steps like rewriting problematic queries or analyzing/optimizing the database schema can drastically improve the performance of the...
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How to Deploy MongoDB for High Availability
IntroductionMongoDB has great support for high availability through ReplicaSets. However, deploying a ReplicaSet is not enough for a production-ready system. The latter requires a bit of planning....
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Become a ClusterControl DBA: Performance and Health Monitoring
In the previous two blog posts we covered both deploying the four types of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL) and managing/monitoring your existing...
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Custom Graphs to Monitor your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL Systems...
Graphs are important, as they are your window onto your monitored systems. ClusterControl comes with a predefined set of graphs for you to analyze, these are built on top of the metric sampling done by...
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Become a ClusterControl DBA: Operational Reports for MySQL, MariaDB,...
The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what...
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New White Paper on State-of-the-Art Database Management: ClusterControl - The...
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our first white paper on ClusterControl, the only management system you’ll ever need to automate and manage your open source database...
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A Developer’s Guide to MongoDB Sharding
A massive growth of data comes with a cost of reduced throughput operations especially when being served by a single server. However, you can improve this performance by increasing the number of...
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Webinar: Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with...
Are you frustrated with traditional, labour-intensive backup and archive practices for your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases?What if you could have one backup management solution for...
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Simple Scheduling of Maintenance Windows across your Database Clusters
Maintenance is something that an operation team can not avoid. Servers have to keep up with the latest software, hardware and technology to ensure systems are stable and running with the lowest risk...
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