KlustronDB Quick Start

KlustronDB has very convenient and automated cluster installation and operation management tools, allowing DBAs to easily complete cluster installation as well as all operation, management, and monitoring tasks. After the cluster is installed, if needed, users can use the data import tools provided by KlustronDB or third-party data import tools to import data from other database systems. Then, KlustronDB can be used by application software developers.

For application developers, it is only necessary to configure the connection information for the application software to connect to KlustronDB, and they can use KlustronDB just like using MySQL and PostgreSQL, without any additional complexity or extra work.

DBA Operation and Maintenance Convenience

The KlustronDB development team provides DBAs with a very convenient GUI cluster operation and maintenance management tool, XPanel, which allows cluster management and maintenance tasks to be completed easily; at the same time, we offer a cluster management API that enables users to programmatically integrate KlustronDB cluster management functions into other software.

DBAs can use the Grafana tool included with KlustronDB to monitor the operating status of cluster compute nodes, as well as use Kibana to retrieve the operating logs of cluster nodes.

DBAs do not need to undertake the heavy work of maintaining the mapping of metadata between compute nodes and storage nodes, data type conversions, or ensuring uniformity and consistency of metadata across all nodes — this repetitive work is automatically handled by the KlustronDB system. For the technical principles, see KlustronDB’s DDL transaction processing and replication technology.

DBAs handle other routine maintenance of storage nodes in exactly the same way as maintaining general MySQL nodes and replica clusters, with the tasks and methods being completely identical.

According to the instructions in this document, users with basic knowledge and experience in using databases can complete the installation and daily management and operation of the KlustronDB cluster, and if needed, also import data from other databases into the KlustronDB cluster.