How DB Trail guarantees a recovery would actually be correct: Data Validation
A backup you never restored is not really a backup, it is a hope. This is how DB Trail checks the whole recovery chain (capture, storage…
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The MariaDB approach vs the DB Trail for MySQL approach: Comparing time-travel
Two ways to keep database history: inline system versioning, or an external change-data-capture index on a separate machine. This is not a speed contest. It is…
Rate Limiting (Throttle) for MySQL with ProxySQL and Bintrail
Back in 2020 I wrote about rate limiting writes to MySQL with ProxySQL. The main idea is still valid, but two things changed enough to write…
MySQL Time-Travel with near-ZERO overhead: How bintrail skips the write load
A reader asked four operations-grade questions about Time Travel SQL. Here is how bintrail handles multi-TB tables, retention, monitoring, and partitioning - and how it differs…
For a Database, survive used to mean “The server stays up”. With AI Agents, that’s not enough anymore
One of the 3 promise that a database do is: I will Survive. Traditionally it was physical: disk, memory, replication, OOM. The hardware side. With agents,…