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How We Optimized Read Performance: Readahead, Prefetch, and Cache

DZone

However, the increasing sizes of both data volumes and distributed system clusters raise significant cost challenges for all-flash storage and vast operational challenges for kernel clients. It improves I/O throughput substantially through the distributed cache and uses cost-effective object storage for data storage.

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The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing.

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Consistent caching mechanism in Titus Gateway

The Netflix TechBlog

We introduce a caching mechanism in the API gateway layer, allowing us to offload processing from singleton leader elected controllers without giving up strict data consistency and guarantees clients observe. When a new leader is elected it loads all data from external storage. The cache is kept in sync with the current leader process.

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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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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal was to build a versatile and efficient data storage solution that could handle a wide variety of use cases, ranging from the simplest hashmaps to more complex data structures, all while ensuring high availability, tunable consistency, and low latency. Developers just provide their data problem rather than a database solution!

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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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