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.

Database 166

Database AWS Games Latency 166

Dynatrace

MARCH 12, 2025

Full-stack tracing: Track each user request across multiple FMs, vector databases, orchestrators (LangChain), and custom business logic. Compliance: Document all inputs and outputs, maintaining full data lineage from prompt to response to build a clear audit trail and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Metrics 165

Metrics Serverless Analytics Innovation 165

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

Percona

APRIL 3, 2023

Binary Javascript Object Notation (BSON) is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON documents. To read the content of a BSON document, you have to convert it to a human-readable format like JSON. Through this blog post, you will learn how to convert a BSON document to JSON.

Database 114

Database Programming Open Source Network 114

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Incremental Backups: Speeds up recovery and makes data management more efficient for active databases. Improved JSON Handling & Security: Improved logical replication and the new MAINTAIN privilege give database administrators more control and flexibility. JSON_VALUE retrieves individual values from JSON documents.

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s a simple rough sketch of RAG: Start with a collection of documents about a domain. Split each document into chunks. Store these chunks in a vector database, indexed by their embedding vectors. The various flavors of RAG borrow from recommender systems practices, such as the use of vector databases and embeddings.

Open Source 127

Open Source Healthcare Database Entertainment 127

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Amazon DynamoDB: DynamoDB is a key-value and document database capable of handling more than 10 trillion requests per day and has the capacity to manage 20 million requests per second.

Serverless 325

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 325

Dynatrace

MARCH 13, 2025

You can find additional deployment options in the OpenTelemetry demo documentation. For details, see Dynatrace API – Tokens and authentication in theDynatrace documentation. To set up the demo using Docker , follow the steps below. If you don’t have one, you can use a trial account.

Open Source 147

Open Source Metrics Architecture Infrastructure 147

O'Reilly

JANUARY 21, 2025

Your companys AI assistant confidently tells a customer its processed their urgent withdrawal requestexcept it hasnt, because it misinterpreted the API documentation. These are systems that engage in conversations and integrate with APIs but dont create stand-alone content like emails, presentations, or documents.

Software Engineering 119

Software Engineering Efficiency Engineering Systems 119

Scalegrid

MAY 2, 2019

It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting , the most popular NoSQL database , for their deployments due to its flexible nature and lack of schema requirements. It is also recommended that SSL connections be enabled to encrypt the client-database traffic. Testing Failover Behavior.

Testing 55

Testing Network Database Servers 55

Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. According to 2023 statistics, 49% of web applications use an SQL-based database , with SQL having a 75% adoption rate in the IT industry.

Database 130

Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

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

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2023

The definition of Percona Advisors by ChatGPT is the following: Percona Advisors can help organizations implement robust security measures to protect their databases and sensitive data. Percona Advisors is an open source framework, meaning you can create your own checks by following our documentation. It is partially true.

Database 126

Database Open Source Monitoring Testing 126

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2024

Retention-based deletion is governed by a policy outlining the duration for which data is stored in the database before it’s deleted automatically. For instance, if data is mistakenly ingested into the database, it may need to be deleted to prevent inaccuracies or sensitive data from being stored.

Storage 264

Storage Government Best Practices Media 264

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

Database 139

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 139

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Real-world context: Determine if vulnerabilities are linked to internet-facing systems or databases to help you prioritize the vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk. Please see the instructions in Dynatrace Documentation. Not a Dynatrace customer yet? Explore these new capabilities in the Dynatrace Playground.

Analytics 130

Analytics Internet Internet Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JULY 15, 2024

These include traditional on-premises network devices and servers for infrastructure applications like databases, websites, or email. Read syslog ingestion documentation with configuration samples. See installation documentation for setup. Setting up your first Environment ActiveGate?

Infrastructure 278

Infrastructure Network Azure Monitoring 278

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. JSON database in 9.2

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Percona

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Heck, typing “database migration plan” into Google and reading this blog could constitute planning. In brief, a proper database migration plan includes: Establishing clear objectives: Define what you want to achieve and how open source will get there. Some level of planning is expected when migrating to open source.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Best Practices Strategy 111

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Specifically, how our team uses the relationships and schemas defined within GraphQL to automatically build and maintain a search database. Each service could potentially implement its own search database, but then we would still need an aggregator. The data needs to be stored in a search database for quick retrieval.

Database 246

Database Cache Servers Performance 246

DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Cosmos DB is a multimodal database in Azure that supports schema-less storage. By default, Cosmos DB containers tend to index all the fields of a document uploaded. Cosmos DB can be a good candidate for a key-value store. We can limit the index properties only to id and partitionkey to make the container a pure key-value store.

Azure 243

Azure Storage C++ Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Achieve full observability of all AWS services. Available Now.

AWS 279

AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 111

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 111

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

Collected metrics are analyzed in Dynatrace, using the SAP expert community’s established best-practice advice on ABAP platform health indicators, including response time breakdowns of the response times between ABAP-specific application server activities, tasks, and database interaction. See Dynatrace documentation for details.

Monitoring 218

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 218

DZone

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For example, each deliverable in the project, like the requirements, design, code, documents, user interface, etc., Testing can also be divided based on the sub-stages or activities in testing, for instance, test case generation and design, test case execution and verification building of the testing database, etc. should be tested.

Testing 246

Testing Programming Design Code 246

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 107

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 107

Scalegrid

AUGUST 15, 2019

In this article, we are going to compare 6 of the top MongoDB Graphical User Interfaces that help developers increase their productivity and manage their database. Whether you're exploring your local #MongoDB database or working with shards and replica sets, @Studio3T allows you to do all of it. Comparing MongoDB GUIs. Click To Tweet.

Database 40

Database Servers Availability Monitoring 40

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I played a bit with ChatGPT in February to see how it would respond to random database-related inquiries, and I found it pretty impressive and annoying at the same time. significantly enhanced downgrade compatibility by introducing changes that make it easier for downgraded databases to interoperate with older MongoDB versions.

Database 107

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 107

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

By transacting with a database which is monitored by a CDC connector that creates events, or b. A GraphQL processor executes the user provided GraphQL query to fetch documents from the federated gateway. Writing an Avro schema for such a document is time consuming and error prone to do by hand.

Engineering 271

Engineering Architecture Java Infrastructure 271

Percona

DECEMBER 15, 2022

JSON data and relational databases have traditionally been diametric opposites. So many folks were surprised when relational databases started adding a JSON data type to their products. In this multi-part blog series, we will start with an overview of using JSON in a relational database. JSON is popular. Very popular.

Database 92

Database Servers Processing Efficiency 92

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility. Please note – there is no need to restart your database servers. If your apps are deployed in a PaaS Platform, e.g:

Engineering 270

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 270

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Database migration is almost always time-consuming, tedious, and full of potential pitfalls. Database migration is complex Let’s start here. What’s your documentation plan?

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2019

July 17, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. The database is also widely loved for PostgreSQL extensions which enable users to extend the functionality of their database. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

Azure 182

Azure AWS Open Source Database 182

Dynatrace

MARCH 27, 2024

As teams and their structure and metadata are often maintained in a dedicated database, such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) or ServiceNow. A dedicated workflow allows automatic synchronization of the database information with Dynatrace and keeps the ownership team information up-to-date.

Best Practices 263

Best Practices Azure Database Code 263