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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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). You also decide to run your database for storing user uploads – such as images or videos – directly in Kubernetes. However, you lack insights into your PVCs.

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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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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.

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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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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.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Stay tuned for updates. Dynatrace news. 1 Multicloud serverless application dashboard at a glance. New to Dynatrace?

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Flexible Storage : The service is designed to integrate with various storage backends, including Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch , allowing Netflix to customize storage solutions based on specific use case requirements.

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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.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The KV DAL allows applications to use a well-defined and storage engine agnostic HTTP/gRPC key-value data interface that in turn decouples applications from hard to maintain and backwards-incompatible datastore APIs. One namespace in a Key-Value DAL contains as many key-value data as required, it is the equivalent to a table in a database.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 28, 2020

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1. Manual tasks like shutting down virtual machines in bulk or creating database backups can be error prone. We’ll release additional monitoring support for new services soon, so stay tuned for further updates. Azure Logic Apps. Azure Container Instance. Azure Data Factory v1. Azure Data Factory v2.

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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!

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). documentation. Prometheus Data Source documentation.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This challenge has given rise to the discipline of observability engineering, which concentrates on the details of telemetry data to fine-tune observability use cases. But often, we use additional services and solutions within our environment for backups, storage, networking, and more. What is Prometheus?

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB.

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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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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Unfortunately, my excitement was short lived for a couple of reasons.

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Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. This update allows customers to scale storage more flexibly, based on their current needs, without incurring unnecessary costs. </p>

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Unlike traditional row-based relational databases, which store data for each row sequentially on disk, Amazon Redshift stores each column sequentially. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??t t read data from columns it doesnâ??t t need when executing a given query.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g., Want to save money on your AWS RDS bill? The settings might not be optimal. IOPs) required by MySQL.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

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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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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Many of our customers have, with the click of a button, created DynamoDB deployments in a matter of minutes that are able to serve trillions of database requests per year. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. This was the genesis of NoSQL databases like Dynamo at Amazon.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To stay tuned, keep an eye on our release notes. Now you can extend your observability into data acquired from an Oracle Database using SQL queries. Improved error handling for unexpected storage issues. (APM-360014). This will happen with Dynatrace version 1.242 or later. New features and enhancements. Extensions. Dashboards.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Stay tuned!

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

They enable us to further fine-tune and configure the system, ensuring the new changes are integrated smoothly and seamlessly. Our system doesn’t require strict consistency guarantees and does not use database transactions. A/B Testing A/B testing is a widely recognized method for verifying hypotheses through a controlled experiment.

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. Stay tuned for more news about MongoDB offerings. For one, they often favor stability over innovation.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

Database administrators with appropriate privileges can associate virtual CPUs with resource groups and assign threads to these groups. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised. Currently, CPU affinity (i.e., Will this work?

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