Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. At a glance – TLDR.

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Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

DZone

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

We often dwell on the technical aspects of database selection, focusing on performance metrics , storage capacity, and querying capabilities. Yet, the impact of choosing the right NoSQL database goes beyond these parameters; it affects your business outcomes.

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Database Latency Speed Metrics 278

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Maintaining optimal application performance is crucial for businesses, and fast databases are vital in achieving this goal. For an effective approach to database performance, it’s crucial to have a comprehensive overview of all databases, including server-side DBs.

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Database Monitoring Games Metrics 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In part 2, we’ll show you how to retrieve business data from a database, analyze that data using dashboards and ad hoc queries, and then use a Davis analyzer to predict metric behavior and detect behavioral anomalies. Similar to the tutorial extension, we created an extension that performs queries against databases.

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Database Artificial Intelligence Metrics Monitoring 290

DZone

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Microsoft Azure SQL is a robust, fully managed database platform designed for high-performance querying, relational data storage, and analytics. For a typical web application with a backend, it is a good choice when we want to consider a managed database that can scale both vertically and horizontally.

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Metrics Azure Analytics Storage 165

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

PostgreSQL 17 improves performance, backups, JSON handling, and security. Heres what stands out: Key Takeaways Better Performance: Faster write operations and improved vacuum processes help handle high-concurrency workloads more smoothly. Key Benefits: Smaller Storage Footprint: Saves only modified data, cutting down backup size.

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Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

APRIL 1, 2025

As more organizations move their PostgreSQL databases onto Kubernetes, a common question arises: Which storage solution best handles its demands? Picking the right option is critical, directly impacting performance, reliability, and scalability.

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Storage Benchmarking Scalability Database 65

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Secondly, determining the correct allocation of resources (CPU, memory, storage) to each virtual machine to ensure optimal performance without over-provisioning can be difficult. This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues.

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DZone

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The load testing for the database needs to be conducted usually so that the impact on the system can be monitored in different scenarios, such as query language rule optimization, storage engine parameter adjustment, etc. Why Load Testing Matters in Nebula Graph? The operating system in this article is the x86 CentOS 7.8.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. Feature-wise, it is up there with the best, if not the best.

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Database Open Source Servers Storage 184

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. User Feed Service, Media Counter Service) read the actions from the streaming data store and performs their specific tasks. After that, the various services (e.g.

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Design Media Storage Logistics 334

Scalegrid

MAY 11, 2024

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. This allowed for sequential access and indexed access, but random writes could cause performance issues.

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Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Over time as new key-value databases were introduced and service owners launched new use cases, we encountered numerous challenges with datastore misuse.

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Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 260

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. AWS offers four serverless offerings for storage.

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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.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. You get all the multicore Anna performance you want, but you don’t pay for what you don’t need. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB!

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Storage Performance AWS Cloud 199

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

Percona

JANUARY 5, 2023

In PostgreSQL, vacuuming is a maintenance task that helps to optimize database performance and reclaim space. PostgreSQL and other database management systems use MVCC to ensure consistent reads and prevent data loss from concurrent updates. It is essential to run a vacuum to keep the database running smoothly periodically.

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Database Performance C++ Efficiency 140

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

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Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are a wealth of options on how you can approach storage configuration in Percona Operator for PostgreSQL , and in this blog post, we review various storage strategies — from basics to more sophisticated use cases. For example, you can choose the public cloud storage type – gp3, io2, etc, or set file system.

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Storage Strategy Cloud Azure 122

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

We’re continuously investing in performance optimizations, high availability, and resilience for Dynatrace Managed deployments. Optimal metric storage management strategy. Dynatrace Managed metric storage management is reliable and delivers high performance. Impact on disk space.

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Performance Hardware Java Storage 191

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.

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Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

This extends Dynatrace visibility into Citrix user experience and Citrix platform performance. Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Citrix VDA.

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Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 52

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Cosmos DB is a multimodal database in Azure that supports schema-less storage. Prohibiting other fields to be indexed increases performance and reduces RU to query point records. Prohibiting other fields to be indexed increases performance and reduces RU to query point records. Cosmos DB cost is measured in RU.)

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Azure Storage C++ Performance Testing 243

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

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 166

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? So many default to Amazon RDS, when MySQL performs exceptionally well on Azure Cloud. MySQL DBaaS vs. Self-Managed MySQL. A good example would be slow query analysis. High Availability Deployment.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. Cold storage and rehydration.

Analytics 246

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 246

Percona

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database, but if you’re storing images, video, audio files, or other large data objects, you need to “toast” them to get optimal performance. This post will look at using The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique (TOAST) to improve performance and scalability.

Storage 111

Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 111

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Log analytics is useful for application performance monitoring in cloud, virtualized, and physical environments, including Kubernetes workloads, application security, and business analytics. Peak performance analysis. Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. Cold storage and rehydration.

Analytics 245

Analytics Storage Retail DevOps 245

DZone

JUNE 25, 2019

It’s really scary knowing that such corruptions are happening in the memory of our computers and servers – that is before they even reach the network and storage portions of the stack. That data must then be safely transported over a network to the storage system where it is written to disk.

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Storage Systems Transportation Network 145

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

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). AWS Storage Gateway. Additionally, Dynatrace creates predefined dashboard templates to visualize each service usage and performance. Available Now.

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AWS Cloud IoT Database 279

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

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Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130