by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Jan 13, 2026 | Databases, KnowledgeBase
If you’re a DBA who has spent years with MySQL or PostgreSQL, trying out a new database usually brings mixed feelings. Curiosity, yes — but also hesitation. I went through the same phase with TiDB. Before installing it, the questions in my mind were very simple: Is...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Dec 30, 2025 | Automation, Databases, General
Introduction: Modern infrastructure is built on containers and Kubernetes, but databases still remain the hardest components to operate reliably. As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), our responsibility is not just to deploy MySQL, but to ensure it remains available,...
by revathisreem | Dec 23, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
Data consistency in MongoDB often looks simple—until a failover happens during peak traffic, dashboards disagree with backend state, or “successful” writes quietly disappear. Most teams don’t hit these problems in development. They hit them in production, under...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Dec 9, 2025 | Case Study, Databases
If you’re reading this, chances are you already have strong opinions — or at least strong curiosity — about MySQL vs MariaDB.And that makes sense. These are the two most widely deployed open-source relational engines in the world, powering everything from early-stage...
by revathisreem | Nov 25, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
There’s something that always surprises me about MongoDB performance tuning:No matter how many clusters we help, no matter the industry — fintech, gaming, e-commerce, IoT — the same mistakes creep in again and again. And the funny thing is, they rarely come from...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Nov 18, 2025 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Migrating between MySQL and MariaDB used to be described as a “drop-in replacement.”But any DBA who has managed real production workloads knows that this is no longer true—especially with the modern community versions MySQL 8.4 LTS and MariaDB 11.4 LTS. It’s a common...
