All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands. In addition, its robust architecture supports ten times as many scientists, all working simultaneously.

Cloud 123

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 123

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. In this blog post, we explain what Greenplum is, and break down the Greenplum architecture, advantages, major use cases, and how to get started. The Greenplum Architecture. The Greenplum Architecture.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Dynatrace

JANUARY 12, 2022

Messaging systems can significantly improve the reliability, performance, and scalability of the communication processes between applications and services. In serverless and microservices architectures, messaging systems are often used to build asynchronous service-to-service communication.

Analytics 182

Analytics Systems DevOps Healthcare 182

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

An incremental backup, which is faster and requires less storage than a full backup, captures changes made since the previous backup. Failover testing: If you have a high availability setup or a secondary data center, test to ensure the failover process switches over to the backup database server. This helps minimize downtime.

Database 90

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 90

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

This comprehensive overview examines open source database architecture, types, pros and cons, uses by industry, and how open source databases compare with proprietary databases. Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing.

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Failover mechanisms The primary purpose of failover — the automatic process of switching from a failed or offline database server to a standby or backup server — is to ensure user access and functionality of databases without interruption, even if there is a hardware or software failure.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The expectation was that with each order or two of magnitude, we would need to revisit and revise the architecture to make sure we could address the issues of scale. We needed to build such an architecture that we could introduce new software components without taking the service down. The importance of the network.

AWS 139

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 139

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Hosted on commodity clusters or cloud infrastructures, IMDGs harness the power of distributed computing to deliver scalable storage capacity and access throughput, along with integrated high availability. To help ensure fast data access and scalability, IMDGs usually employ a straightforward key/value storage model.

Scalability 40

Scalability Cache Airlines Healthcare 40