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.

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Storage Scalability Strategy Performance 94

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

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Storage Systems Scalability Cloud 114

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 248

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.

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Storage Engineering Database Hardware 91

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.

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Analytics Storage Infrastructure Scalability 253

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 294

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

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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.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

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.

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Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 236

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?

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 78

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

At ScaleGrid, we’re always pushing the boundaries to offer more flexibility and scalability to our customers. Customer-Requested Features We’re always listening to your feedback, so we added the ability to access additional storage without upgrading to a larger plan.

Latency 130

Latency AWS Storage Tuning 130

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.

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Azure Analytics Storage Cloud 246

High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters. After that, the post gets added to the feed of all the followers in the columnar data storage. Sample Queries supported by Graph Database.

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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 137

Storage Scalability Database Technology 137

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. Scalability. Finally, there’s scalability.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 291

Percona

AUGUST 9, 2023

This upgrade has vastly improved the management and storage of metadata, resulting in better reliability and scalability for various database objects. The primary goal of the Transaction Data Dictionary (TDD) is to enhance the overall performance, stability, and scalability of MySQL databases. In MySQL 5.7,

Database 80

Database Storage Scalability Games 80

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.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 96

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

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Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

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.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 111

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

DZone

JULY 3, 2023

Data engineering projects often require the setup and management of complex infrastructures that support data processing, storage, and analysis. Traditionally, this process involved manual configuration, leading to potential inconsistencies, human errors, and time-consuming deployments.

Data Engineering 150

Data Engineering Infrastructure Code Engineering 150

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 163

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. Introduction Purpose and Scope Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL solutions are increasingly popular among organizations seeking scalable, high-performance databases.

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Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

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.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. Having MySQL backups for your database can speed up and simplify the recovery process.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 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.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 225

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?

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Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

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.

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Innovation AWS Analytics Storage 271

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Exploring artificial intelligence in cloud computing reveals a game-changing synergy.

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Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

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

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.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 231

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

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.

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DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 194

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 198

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture 198

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

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. The reason lies in the unique advantages that come from utilizing a hybrid cloud.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147