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Musa
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
We start using clustercontrol and stopped looking for alternatives
We are now able to scale up to meet user demand as well as administer our databases from a single point.
PROSEase of use is one. We love the features and how it brings some other related services under one administrative control e.g. haproxy. Reports in their various forms and the ability to create custom reports are some of the features we're most in love with as well. Clustercontrols's quick provisioning and decommissioning is a right fit for our scaling needs.
CONSCustomer support. For some reason I am not able to reach customer support via email and for that reason we're stuck using the community edition with reduced features at this time.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the feedback, I will make sure we get in touch with you to make sure you get the support you need!
Replied March 2018
Martijn
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2017
CLusterControl is a mature and easy to use product for management of database clustering software.
I've been following SeveralNines a couple of years and along with that way, I discovered the maturity of their product ClusterControl. All kinds of companies find their way to optimal data, for example, companies which are operating several database types that all need attending to. For such companies, Cluster Control is a very interesting solution to consider as it automates a lot of important tasks. But also at larger companies like VidaXL with a few dozen database nodes, the automatic recovery features for clusters are a great enrichment for their database operations.
PROS1. Automatic recovery of database (replication) clusters. 2. In my opinion one of the biggest challenges is to have in-depth knowledge about all their different database platforms being used. The builtin intelligence, advisory and health checking features of ClusterControl helps to overcome a big chunk of that gap. 3. Ease of deployment, in less then 15 minutes we are able to get a MariaDB or Percona cluster running.
CONSFaster and further development of features for other database platforms besides MySQL and MongoDB would be encouraged by me. For example PostgreSQL features and maturity could be improved.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the feedback! We are working to add more features and more database technologies with each release! PostgreSQL is definitely a priority for us :)
Replied September 2017
Joseph
Gambling & Casinos, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2018
ClusterControl Review
We are much better with it, than without it.
PROSI like the monitoring and graphing. It's a great way to centralize management of multiple systems.
CONSNo easy way to have a free license for testing features in a sandbox environment without obtaining temporary license. No way to see top processes and the resources they are consuming and be able to kill processes. ClusterControl screen refresh can be extremely slow, and even require restart when open for periods of time. Documentation is lacking in many respects on how to's and just general definitions of things are too generic.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! We value you as a customer and appreciate your inputs, they have been passed along to the product team
Replied September 2018
Okan
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2018
good software
experience is good you can rely on this software dashboard is great. you can spot the problems right away.
PROSit gives you a good overall situation overview. you can see current load of servers, queries per sec, node health status etc. the query type distribution is also great. before the cc app i do not know how i managed to keep things up, now i feel comfortable when i see the cc dashboard.
CONSi can not seem to get the active query log to work correctly. detailed tutorials about setting up the software and how to use features are must. i like to know how stuff works so details about inner workings should exist in a humanly understandable format. more details about what is going on right now would be great for eg. the connection count where does all that connection come from which IP or dbuser. things like that would increase the value of the product undoubtedly.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback, I recommend opening a support ticket to ask your questions re the query log, I'll bet we can help you figure it all out.
Replied September 2018
Anonymous
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2018
enjoying using this software since it is very helpful and interactive software
Data management
PROSi like cluster control due to its ability to centralize the communication from both analog and digital I/O . Monitoring system activities is easy Eg managing data record on a large scale like data for organization which could have been tedious to handle.
CONSinvolves keen and logical thinking and has got limitations in diffrent environments in which the software is working for example When using windows CE. when a control overlaps the cluster shell in a Touch Panel VI, the entire control is still completely visible when you build the VI into an application. If the control is completely outside the cluster shell, the control will not be not visible.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback, I have passed it along to the Product team For reference here is a link of the browsers we support https://severalnines.com/docs/requirements.html#supported-browsers
Replied March 2018
Alexander
Verified reviewer
Computer Games, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2018
very good cross platform tool
maybe this is the best solution, even community version, for DB tuning!
PROSvery good dashboards, you can find weak places on comparing dashboards values in one place. Maybe the best solution for tuning databases values.
CONS1. you couldn't skip some alerts. For example, you have alert from category DBHealth about Use wsrep_sst_method=xtrabackup-v2 instead. But I don't like to use it and I don't like to skip all the warnings of DBHealth category . 2. It could be better if there was a line, across all dashboards. So for example, you put your mouse point on one place of dashboard and the line shows the statement on other - this would be really good. 3. Not good, that you don't show prices for commercial solutions( But You have made something really cool
Vendor Response
Thanks for the feedback, I will pass it along to the product team
Replied March 2018
Christian
Research, 10,000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Galera Cluster Made easy
We evaluated owncloud vs nextcloud in enterprise scale (5000+) users and the documentation told us to use a Galera Cluster but we did not had any idea about how to set it up. So we needed a quick way to set it up w/o studying the docs for hours. The I discovered ClusterControl, installed it and followed the guide in the docs and what should I say, we had a 3 node Galera Cluster with load balancer in front in less than 30 minutes. It was ridiculous (in a positive way).
PROSIt's the easiest way to septup a Galera Cluster plus load balancer of choice without having no idea about Galera whatsoever. Plus the ontop features like backup, replication are a charm.
CONSThe UI feels a bit crowded at first, so one has to dig around a bit before one finds the right place.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the feedback, Id love to know what we could do to get those two points from you!
Replied August 2018
Raul
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2019
My honest review of CC 1.7.1
Gets job done hands down
PROSVery simple to operate Intuitive Great support
CONSNothing significant comes to my mind, no cons yet
Vendor Response
Thank you for the feedback, if you run into any issues remember you have Enterprise support during your trial period
Replied March 2019
Mohammed
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2019
ClusterControl is an all in one database management platform with a tons of features
PROS
We have tested the cluster control tool trial. It's loaded with tons of database management features and it is reliable. Some of the key features of this tool is as follows. Easy to deploy and manage production database systems. Advanced Auto recovery during node failures. Database servers can be scaled and managed easily. Multi node cluster support. Galera support for MySQL. MongoDB replication and Sharding clusters. Scheduled auto backup. Advanced database monitoring with integrated tools to gain insight from metrics. Excellent support team.
CONSNeed to include features for managing other DBMS and NoSQL database like Hbase etc.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review, We appreciate the feedback on adding new databases, feel free to reach out directly with your recommendations and we will take a look.
Replied August 2019
Stephen
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Not fully tested
I loved the trial I had of cluster control. It provides an aws rds type layer on top of a galera cluster. It also promises cluster recovery in the event of crashed nodes.
CONSI didn't get a chance to fully test all of the features so I can't comment as to the reliability of all the promised functionality.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the feedback, hope you get to spend some more time with the product in the future!
Replied August 2018
Cihat Okan
Education Management, 10,000+ employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
King of the Database Clusterization
Installing and configuring steps need some expert administration.. Because wrong settings may occured to lost your databases.. But with some calm, a successful installation can be made with patient and careful work. After installation everything was perfect.. Query monitor is also perfect for missing database settings.. Our database is almost better than single host installation with 3 nodes in ClusterControl..
PROSIn the first install, it takes harder than console management for MAriaDB cluster for our 3 database servers. But after using its features, I saw that deploy & install zero configuration was easier than using a database.. Inserting & removing nodes to active cluster is a perfect module.. Tools of clusters are better than ever, haProxy, tuning options and others are very comfortable and reportable with ClusterControl..
CONSAdding nodes and hosts are very easy but I couldn't remove hosts from the active cluster.. There were some errors occured and also I've lost my all databases due to wrong settings.. But as a god mess, I have backups and re-installed it from zero config to fix all..
Reason for choosing ClusterControl
It is easy and making easy steps to monitor everything.. Notification mails are also better and show every problem without looking the monitors all the time and outside work.. It is perfect work and manageable everything needed..
Reasons for switching to ClusterControl
Installation and monitoring was very hard and needed expert technical skills required..
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback, I have passed the issues you faced on to the product team.
Replied September 2020
Michel
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
Very easy to deploy a cluster, also it facilitates administration and monitoring.
The numerous templates that facilitates the deployment of servers, the configuration of cluster, proxies, keepalive service and also the planning of backups. It is the little brother of Oracle Enterprise Manager software that I did used before for oracle databases
CONSI have no cons on the technical side. I find only the price per node a little high, it should be great to have a better price for qualification and development servers ans also standalone ones.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review and feedback! We deeply value you as a customer and hope to continue to work with you in the future! We are always evaluating our pricing structures and will continue to try to find the balance between our clients value and our pricing.
Replied September 2017
Sascha
Internet, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
Install it once, and be prepared to enjoy database stability and scalability forever!
The software allowed us to easily install a database cluster and hand it over to the customer on a very tight budget so he can himself keep an eye on it whenever he likes. The stability of the software is great!
PROSIt just works! In 22 years of web development, I have never come across a software that gave such a positive experience in the long run! You can almost install and forget about it, except that you should never forget about an installed piece of software as an administrator.
CONSI don't like to see notices like "Detailed Alarm notifications are not available in the Community Edition.". I understand the need for an upsell, but I'd prefer if they would make it more subtle.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the feedback and great review! We definitely understand your frustration with the notifications, we think the Dev Studio notifications, chat integrations and monitoring alerts are some pretty neat features too. We do, however, offer the ability to do query monitoring and let you create custom advisers to aid in your monitoring efforts.
Replied September 2017
Neil
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
Pleasure to use, shows me exactly what is going on in my clusters
The graphing, ability to check error logs centrally. The fact it sends out alerts for issues and an alert when the issue is resolved.
CONSI cannot think of anything that I do not like about this software. If I had to give one thing I would say it would be nice have themes for the Overview as I prefer a darker screen.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your review, we really appreciate having you as a ClusterControl user. Make sure to check out the Developer Studio where you can write custom scripts to monitor and send alerts about specific things you might care about.
Replied September 2017
Asparuh
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2018
I am very satisfied with the trial - features, complete documentation, great MySQL/Galera resources.
We have a lot of features similar to Oracle Enterprise Manager for MySQL. Without a tool like S9S ClusterControl it will be very hard to perform realtime monitoring, to be productive and to act proactively. There are nice gadgets integrated with the tool which could help to the DBA's tasks.
PROSAbility to monitor and control all the clusters at one place and notify you in case of trouble. We are thankful for the extended trial and the free customer support for that time. There was also nice dedicated tech demo for our team, which help us a lot to evaluate the product.
CONSThere are some limitations and missing features compared to some other DBA tools, but I believe S9S team is working hard to enrich the application and they are listening to their customers. Price schema compared to competitors is not so flexible (it is a bit costly to monitor large number of servers), but I believe that the S9's sales team could negotiate in order to successfully close the deal.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback, it is much appreciated!
Replied March 2018
Cory
Gambling & Casinos, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Great product to assist in DB Cluster setup and overview
Overall very happy with Several Nines and Cluster Control and I am happy our company engages with them.
PROS* Easy to setup a new cluster or adding a node to a cluster * Easy to check the status variables of all nodes via the web dashboard
CONS* my.cnf file templates are difficult to maintain or add to the system * Upgrading to new version usually causes hand full of issues * Creates zombie threads in Centos that have to be cleaned up with a deamon restart
Vendor Response
Thank you for the review, we're so grateful to have you as a customer and value your inputs! I passed your feedback on to the product team.
Replied August 2018
Zsótér
Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
Feedback for ClusterControl
Really ideal for managing of database. Easy to use, it has many great options (like host failure detection, etc). We can implement to deployment (using docker compose file) without any problem.
PROSI've looked for a sofware for supporting database of AWX environment. I really liked to ensure a smoothly operation regarding AWX. The datase availabiliy is fundamental, too. I planned a master-slave database (plsql) cluster and created everything using docker comopose file. I think, really easy to use this software and is able to support this database cluster enviroment. Very useful if we can check the perfomance data (of database node) real-time, and add or remove node to/from cluster.
CONSI would have liked to add a pre-configured slave database node/image (using docker-compose file, with unique postgresql configuration) and I ran into some errors - meanwhile the new slave host has been added via ClusterControl. I could fix everything but wasn't easy to guess (from error message) what the real problem is.
Reason for choosing ClusterControl
Very good documentation, good feedback from community, many useful feature/tool/option has been implemented in ClusterControl.
Vendor Response
Thank you for feedback, I've passed your ideas to the Product team
Replied September 2020
Kenneth
Used daily for free trial
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
Easy clustering of sql servers
Navigation and ease of use. Cluster control is one of the most robust server control when it comes to RDS.
CONSQuite expensive for a startup. We get it, you make it easy for us to get hoked up with the product. But the trial is too short to play with. It's also expensive.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback, we appreciate it. We can definitely extend your trial (which we do on a case-by-case basis) to make sure you have all the time you need to justify the spend. We are also working on a startup program to provide some more creative ways of introducing it into your organization, if you're interested in piloting it with us give us a shout :)
Replied September 2017
Adnan
Information Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
It's a amazing software
I configured and managed Galera Cluster with cluster control, it's most successfull.
PROSIt's completely working without manuel configuration. It's very successful for fail over scenerio
CONSPrice is so high Maybe support is not enough
Vendor Response
Thank you for the feedback on our pricing, we feel we are pretty competitive with the market but it's always hard in an open source world. Feel free to reach out to us we may be able to work a deal that works for both of us.
Replied August 2018
Javier
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
The quickest way to deploy a good Cluster in a few steps.
I start to use it without know any about this type of clusters, thanks to this I setted up my first MySQL Cluster and it introduce me to this scope.
PROSThe ease to set up it and start to use it. If you haven't deploy any Cluster before, this is the better way to do it.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the review! That is exactly what we want to hear as we think ClusterControl is great for the SysAdmin or DevOps folks who aren't familiar with clustering but need to get it done :)
Replied September 2017
Anonymous
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2017
Excellent piece of software
Makes life as a DBA easy.
PROSExcellent piece of software. Enables us to control all our servers across the enterprise and monitor server health easily.
CONSCan sometimes be a little cludgy when adding single instances. Postgresql support very limited and only monitors very basic streaming replication.
Vendor Response
Thank you for the positive review and also for the feedback. When it comes to PostgreSQL we have a lot in the works to support it more!
Replied October 2017
Glyn
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2018
Great as a basic monitoring and dashboard tool
Easy visibility of multiple Galera clusters.
PROSExcellent support for MySQL and Galera clustering, really ahead of the game here and nicely done.
CONSVery Naive monitoring of PostgreSQL systems, only seems to support the most basic of streaming replication setups.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback, we are working at beefing up our PostgreSQL support!
Replied March 2018
Jeffrey
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2019
Great software for managing databases
So far we have only done an initial evaluation of ClusterControl and found it to be very good, but too much is changing with our backend systems right now to move forward with any possible purchase decisions. That being said we definitely see where it can solve some of our biggest problems that we have encountered with our MySQL database.
PROSMakes many tasks that are typically very difficult very easy like monitoring, automatically failing over in case of a server problem, building new database servers and managing replication.
CONSIt would be nice to have tighter integration with MaxScale to have more options for sql aware proxies.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your feedback on increasing Maxscale integration, I will pass it along to our Product team
Replied February 2019
Chris
Financial Services, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2020
A moderate Cluster Control web application with great potential.
A good attempt to fellow developers for creating a tool for making a part of the DevOps much easier. However, has a long path to walk...
PROS- Cloud based - Easy deployment - Zero configuration
CONS- A lot of functionalities don't work (e.g. import a cluster) - False alarms on various event (already opened issue still no actions taken)
Vendor Response
We're sorry you were able to get ClusterControl operating on LXC. It's, unfortunately, not a supported environment and we haven't done any testing on it. Because of this, we're not surprised you had issues. Our support team reached out ot you on the 22nd but we didn't get a response. Please reach back out to our support if you would like to talk about it more.
Replied June 2020
Juan
Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for free trial
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2017
Amazed.
Ease of use. Being able to have my Kubernetes Galera clúster auto discovered. Graphs and insight to my cluster.
PROSI love how intuitive the interface is. Also, how easy it is to move around and find the things I need. Love the product.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the great feedback, Juan, it's much appreciated. If you're also using Docker, look out for some future updates, which we'll publish soon. Cheers, JJ - Severalnines Team
Replied September 2017