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Designing Instagram

High Scalability

Firstly, the synchronous process which is responsible for uploading image content on file storage, persisting the media metadata in graph data-storage, returning the confirmation message to the user and triggering the process to update the user activity. Fetching User Feed. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database. Optimization.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Cassandra serves as the backbone for a diverse array of use cases within Netflix, ranging from user sign-ups and storing viewing histories to supporting real-time analytics and live streaming. The KV data can be visualized at a high level, as shown in the diagram below, where three records are shown.

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What is a data lakehouse? Combining data lakes and warehouses for the best of both worlds

Dynatrace

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. Unlike data warehouses, however, data is not transformed before landing in storage. A data lakehouse provides a cost-effective storage layer for both structured and unstructured data. Query language.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Using MongoDB as a cache store ( Architects Zone – Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices). Email Reveals Google App Engine Search API About Ready For Preview Release, Charges Planned For Storage, Operations ( TechCrunch). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Hacker News). Java EE 7 is Final.

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Mastering Disk Space Management with MongoDB® Storage Engines

Scalegrid

MongoDB offers several storage engines that cater to various use cases. The default storage engine in earlier versions was MMAPv1, which utilized memory-mapped files and document-level locking. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

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What is a Distributed Storage System

Scalegrid

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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MySQL Data Caching Efficiency

Percona

A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. How do you know if your MySQL database caching is operating efficiently?

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