by Erik Bransberg | May 18, 2021 | AWS, HA Failover, VMware Greenplum, Web Scale
Erik Brandsberg, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), delivered a highly informative and in-depth technical presentation focused on the capabilities and limitations of two widely used PostgreSQL proxies, namely Pg-Bouncer and PgPool-II. This educational session is...
by heimdalladmin | Jun 3, 2019 | Azure, HA Failover, Web Scale
One of the main causes of slow application performance is inefficient interaction between the application and database. Today, developers spend precious resources on building home grown solutions to optimize SQL performance. For IT organizations, they are...
by Roland Lee | May 25, 2018 | HA Failover, VMware Greenplum
Why Heimdall Data for Pivotal Data? As a transparent Database Proxy, Heimdall manages the interaction of Pivotal Greenplum and GemFire, all without code changes. Notable benefits include: Zero downtime: Automated Write Master failover Improved Performance:...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 21, 2016 | HA Failover
PostgreSQL for Database failover For someone new to PostgreSQL, it’s database failure solution is very database oriented, not application oriented. It has the ability to synchronize data between nodes using Slony-I or streaming replication, but this...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 18, 2016 | HA Failover
Understanding Database Failover: Part 3 – MySQL In the previous two blogs, we discussed the importance of efficient and reliable database failover for cloud applications and explored failover mechanisms in Amazon RDS. In this blog, we will dive into MySQL...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 12, 2016 | HA Failover
Amazon RDS for Database Failover Amazon RDS with multi-zone failover is commonly used solution. However, it is important to understand its true capabilities when deployed. This especially important for for online, e-commerce application, where application downtime...