General questions about Managed Service for Greenplum®
What is Managed Service for Greenplum®?
Managed Service for Greenplum® is a service that helps you create, operate, and scale Greenplum® databases in a cloud infrastructure.
With Managed Service for Greenplum®, you can:
- Create a database with the required performance characteristics.
- Scale processing power and storage dedicated for your databases as needed.
- Get database logs.
Managed Service for Greenplum® takes on time-consuming Greenplum® infrastructure administration tasks:
- Monitors resource usage.
- Automatically creates DB backups.
- Provides fault tolerance through automatic failover to backup replicas.
- Keeps database software updated.
You interact with database clusters in Managed Service for Greenplum® the same way you interact with regular databases in your local infrastructure. This allows you to manage internal database settings to meet your app requirements.
What part of database management and maintenance is Managed Service for Greenplum® responsible for?
When you create clusters, Managed Service for Greenplum® allocates resources, installs the DBMS, and creates databases.
For the created and running databases, Managed Service for Greenplum® automatically creates backups and applies fixes and updates to the DBMS.
Managed Service for Greenplum® also provides data replication between database hosts (both inside and between availability zones) and automatically switches the load over to a backup replica in the event of a failure.
Which tasks are best addressed using Managed Service for Greenplum®, and which using VMs with databases?
Yandex Cloud offers two ways to work with databases:
- Managed Service for Greenplum® allows you to operate template databases with no need to worry about administration.
- Yandex Compute Cloud virtual machines allow you to create and configure your own databases. This approach allows you to use any database management systems, access databases via SSH, and so on.
How do I get started with Managed Service for Greenplum®?
Managed Service for Greenplum® is available to any registered Yandex Cloud user.
To create a database cluster in Managed Service for Greenplum®, you need to define its parameters:
- Host class (performance characteristics, such as CPUs, RAM, etc.).
- Storage size (reserved to the full extent when you create a cluster).
- Network your cluster will be connected to.
- Number of hosts for a cluster and the cluster availability zone.
For a detailed guide, see Creating a cluster.
What happens when a new DBMS version is released?
The database software is updated when new minor versions are released. Owners of the affected DB clusters are notified of expected work times and DB availability in advance.
What happens when a DBMS version becomes deprecated?
One month after the database version becomes deprecated, Managed Service for Greenplum® automatically sends email notifications to the owners of DB clusters created with this version.
New hosts can no longer be created using deprecated DBMS versions. Database clusters are automatically upgraded to the next supported version seven days after notification for minor versions and one month after notification for major versions. Deprecated major versions are going to be upgraded even if you have disabled automatic updates.
Does the service meet the requirements of the Russian Federation Federal Law 152-FZ on personal data?
Yes, it does. You can read the full security audit conclusion here.
Can I get logs of my operations in Yandex Cloud?
Yes, you can request information about operations with your resources from Yandex Cloud logs. For more information, see Data requests.
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