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.

Storage 65

Storage Benchmarking Scalability Database 65

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 297

Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

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. The newer, pluggable storage engine, WiredTiger, addresses this by using prefix compression, collection-level locking, and row-based storage.

Storage 130

Storage Engineering Cache Database 130

DZone

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The ELK stack is an abbreviation for Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, which offers the following capabilities: Elasticsearch: a scalable search and analytics engine with a log analytics tool and application-formed database, perfect for data-driven applications.

Analytics 267

Analytics Storage Infrastructure Scalability 267

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.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Metric definitions are often scattered across various databases, documentation sites, and code repositories, making it difficult for analysts and data scientists to find reliable information quickly. Our ecosystem enables engineering teams to run applications and services at scale, utilizing a mix of open-source and proprietary solutions.

Analytics 212

Analytics Engineering Entertainment Metrics 212

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.

Latency 260

Latency Storage Cache Servers 260

DZone

APRIL 11, 2023

Data processing in the cloud has become increasingly popular due to its scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. It provides built-in connectors for various data sources such as databases, file systems, cloud storage, and more.

Azure 246

Azure Analytics Storage Cloud 246

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Cloud storage monitoring. Website monitoring. Virtual machine (VM) monitoring.

Cloud 295

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

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 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

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.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

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. Firstly, managing virtual networks can be complex as networking in a virtual environment differs significantly from traditional networking.

Efficiency 264

Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 264

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

For example, you can switch to a scalable cloud-based web host, or compress/optimize images to save bandwidth. Choose A Scalable Web Host The most convenient way to design a high-traffic website without worrying about website crashes is to upgrade your web hosting solution. Caching can help your website combat this issue.

Traffic 86

Traffic Website Design Cache 86

InfoQ

MAY 15, 2023

A horizontally scalable exabyte-scale blob storage system which operates out of multiple regions, Magic Pocket is used to store all of Dropbox’s data. Adopting SMR technology and erasure codes, the system has extremely high durability guarantees but is cheaper than operating in the cloud. By Facundo Agriel

Storage 117

Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 117

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

“Logs magnify these issues by far due to their volatile structure, the massive storage needed to process them, and due to potential gold hidden in their content,” Pawlowski said, highlighting the importance of log analysis. ” In many cases, indexed databases only provide access to a sample of statistical data summaries.

Analytics 246

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture 246

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! Whether it’s database or message queues it’s a really weird combo of licenses and features for hostage. See you in the New Year. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Still looking for that perfect xmas gift?

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Increasing an organization’s DevOps maturity is a key goal as teams adopt more cloud-native technologies, which simultaneously makes their environments more scalable and feature-rich but also more complex. The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases.

DevOps 246

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 246

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. 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. Enter graph databases.

Database 121

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Key-Value Abstraction offers a flexible, scalable solution for storing and accessing structured key-value data, while the Data Gateway Platform provides essential infrastructure for protecting, configuring, and deploying the data tier. We do not use it for metrics, histograms, timers, or any such near-real time analytics use case.

Latency 239

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 239

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Document databases advance the BigTable model offering two significant improvements.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Storage 114

Storage Cloud AWS Media 114

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL. This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered.

Scalability 147

Scalability Database Storage IoT 147

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Native support for Syslog messages Syslog messages are generated by default in Linux and Unix operating systems, security devices, network devices, and applications such as web servers and databases. Dynatrace supports scalable data ingestion, ensuring your observability infrastructure grows with your cloud environment.

Innovation 290

Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 290

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

Storage 114

Storage Engineering Database Open Source 114

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

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

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 138

Storage Scalability Database Technology 138

High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2018

1.6x : better deep learning cluster scheduling on k8s; 100,000 : Large-scale Diverse Driving Video Database; 3rd : reddit popularity in the US; 50% : increase in Neural Information Processing System papers, AI bubble? They'll love you even more. Domain Specific Architectures are getting 20x and 40x improvements, not just 5-10%.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

MAY 14, 2020

The world’s most scalable, automatic distributed tracing pushes the boundary once again with enhanced Adaptive Load Management. Dynatrace PurePath technology captures and analyzes transactions end to end across every tier of your application technology stack, from the browser all the way down to the code and database level.

Processing 234

Processing Hardware Traffic Storage 234

InfoQ

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Google recently announced various improvements to Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service with a “50% increase in throughput and 2.5 times the storage per node than before” without a price change. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Google 106

Google Storage Cloud Database 106

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