InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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DZone

JULY 19, 2021

Many applications are deployed across multiple regions so they can meet customers where they are and/or ensure availability. However, these deployments add significant complexity to database operations and data consistency suffers.

Latency 246

Latency Database Performance Availability 246

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 109

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109

DZone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The circuit breaker is a design pattern that prevents cascading failures and improves the overall availability and performance of a system. A circuit breaker is a component that monitors the health of a dependency, such as a remote service, an external API, or a database. What Is a Circuit Breaker?

Latency 264

Latency Network Database Monitoring 264

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is to simply report the YCSB bench test results in detail for five NoSQL databases namely Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, Yugabyte and BangDB and compare the result side by side. I have used latest versions for each NoSQL DB and have followed the recommendations to run all the databases in optimized conditions. Load and 2.

Benchmarking 308

Benchmarking Latency C++ Database 308

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

Engineering 203

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 203

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Identifying key Redis® metrics such as latency, CPU usage, and memory metrics is crucial for effective Redis monitoring. Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. Monitoring tools should also be considered when setting up your Redis® database.

Strategy 130

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 25, 2023

The service should be able to serve real-time, aka UI, applications so CRUD and search operations should be achieved with low latency. All data should be also available for offline analytics in Hive/Iceberg. A data model in Marken can be described using schema — just like how we create schemas for database tables etc.

Scalability 288

Scalability Latency Media Architecture 288

Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database. Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to manage Apache Cassandra databases.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

VoltDB

MARCH 21, 2024

In the world of databases, data management, and data platforms, this entropy usually takes the form of a simple database or data platform that might be ideal for early use cases evolving (or rather, de volving) into an expensive and unmanageable nightmare due to operational strain from use-case gluttony.

Cache 52

Cache Database Storage Availability 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. Observing AI models Running AI models at scale can be resource-intensive.

Cache 215

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 215

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

WiredTiger excels with operational databases and transactional workloads as it offers b-tree-based storage and well-ordered data structures. However, it is limited by the available free memory amount, and all data is lost when the server stops. A database level lock is held during the compaction operation.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Traditionally, these connections have been stored in relational databases, with each object type requiring its own table. Enter graph databases.

Database 128

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 128

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Read/Write latency. Data Placement. System Coordination. Consistency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future. Redis’s support for pipelining in a Redis server can significantly reduce network latency by batching command executions, making it beneficial for write-heavy applications. High data availability is achieved.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Dynatrace

MAY 19, 2022

Every organization’s goal is to keep its systems available and resilient to support business demands. This view shows the availability SLO for key application functions, like login and vehicle list, as well as a large set of timeframes, like last 30 minutes, last hour, today, and last six days. Dynatrace news. Saturation.

Automotive 279

Automotive Latency Architecture Azure 279

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. JVM, databases, middleware, operating system, cloud instances, etc) by also taking advantage of Dynatrace full-stack observability. lower than 2%.).

Latency 216

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 216

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

There are many naive solutions possible for this problem for example: Write different runs in different databases. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. Instead our challenge was to implement this feature on top of Cassandra and ElasticSearch databases because that’s what Marken uses.

Media 269

Media Latency Architecture Database 269

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. HyperScale Database. Hyperscale databases are provisioned using vCores. DTU Pricing Tier.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. However, there can be a lack of understanding of the benefits that stored procedures bring or if you have a benchmarking tool or database that doesn’t support stored procedures, then you have nothing to compare against.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 62

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This spans from the end user’s experience down to the performance of underlying database queries, and from the application code down to the hardware resources it utilizes. Therefore, we have redesigned this extension from scratch, replacing the previously available WMI-based extension.

Efficiency 226

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 226

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases. What is OneAgent?

Metrics 182

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 182

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

Latency 86

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 86

Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

Storage 294

Storage Cache Metrics Database 294

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first—and often most surprising for people to learn—thing that I want to draw your attention to is that TTFB counts one whole round trip of latency. The reason is because mobile networks are, as a rule, high latency connections. Database queries: Pages that require data from a database will incur a cost when searching over it.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 165