Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Polyglot Persistence Trends : Number of Databases Used & Top Combinations.

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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.

Database 246

Database Monitoring Games Metrics 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2024

These releases often assumed ideal conditions such as zero latency, infinite bandwidth, and no network loss, as highlighted in Peter Deutsch’s eight fallacies of distributed systems. With Dynatrace, teams can seamlessly monitor the entire system, including network switches, database storage, and third-party dependencies.

Engineering 262

Engineering Systems Latency Metrics 262

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Running Databases efficiently is crucial for business success Monitoring databases is essential in large IT environments to prevent potential issues from becoming major problems that result in data loss or downtime. However, horizontal scaling of these databases can take time and effort.

Database 246

Database Metrics Monitoring Servers 246

DZone

JUNE 11, 2020

It's challenging to troubleshoot issues in a distributed database because the information about the system is scattered in different machines. TiDB is an open-source, distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Before version 4.0,

Database 246

Database Open Source Analytics Architecture 246

DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Previously, our application was using one database; developers knew how it worked, and the deployment rarely happened. A single database administrator was capable of maintaining the database, optimizing the queries, and making sure things worked as expected. Cloud and microservices changed the world.

Database 288

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Understanding the structures within a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is critical to optimizing performance and managing data effectively. Here's a breakdown of the concepts with examples. RDBMS Structures 1.

Database 264

Database Tuning Systems Performance 264

DZone

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM trees) are a powerful data structure widely used in modern databases to efficiently handle write-heavy workloads. They offer significant performance benefits through batching writes and optimizing reads with sorted data structures.

Strategy 244

Strategy Storage Efficiency Database 244

DZone

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When deployed on bare-metal clusters or cloud VMs, database administrators are responsible for adding and removing nodes in a clustered system, planning the changes at times of low load to minimize disruption to production workloads.

Monitoring 263

Monitoring Scalability Database Cloud 263

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 9, 2020

If you’re running SAP, you’re likely already familiar with the HANA relational database management system. However, if you’re an operations engineer who’s been tasked with migrating to HANA from a legacy database system, you’ll need to get up to speed quickly.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Database Monitoring Metrics 246

DZone

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the era of the Internet of Things ( IoT) , the continuous influx of spatial and temporal data from interconnected devices has given rise to a vast and intricate landscape, demanding a sophisticated approach to database management.

IoT 290

IoT Database Internet Internet 290

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dynatrace business events address these systemic problems, delivering real-time business observability to business and IT teams with the precision and context required to support data-driven decisions and improve business outcomes. Data is not delivered in real time; it’s often delayed by weeks or longer.

Database 246

Database Metrics Retail Analytics 246

Dynatrace

MARCH 19, 2025

Heres more about the VMware security advisory and how you can quickly find affected systems using Dynatrace so you canautomate remediation efforts. With a TOCTOU vulnerability, an attacker can manipulate a system between the time a resource’s state is checked and when it’s used, also known as a race condition.

Virtualization 162

Virtualization Database Systems Operating System 162

DZone

AUGUST 1, 2024

Editor's Note: The following is an article written for and published in DZone's 2024 Trend Report, Database Systems: Modernization for Data-Driven Architectures. Time series data has become an essential part of data collection in various fields due to its ability to capture trends, patterns, and anomalies.

Database 260

Database Analytics Software Software 260

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Due to its versatility for storing information in both structured and unstructured formats, PostgreSQL is the fourth most used standard in modern database management systems (DBMS) worldwide 1. Offering comprehensive access to files, software features, and the operating system in a more user-friendly manner to ensure control.

Open Source 147

Open Source Database Cloud Operating System 147

DZone

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Understanding Teradata Data Distribution and Performance Optimization Teradata performance optimization and database tuning are crucial for modern enterprise data warehouses.

Performance 173

Performance Tuning Analytics Strategy 173

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 6, 2025

In this case, the main stakeholders are: - Title Launch Operators Role: Responsible for setting up the title and its metadata into our systems. In this context, were focused on developing systems that ensure successful title launches, build trust between content creators and our brand, and reduce engineering operational overhead.

Scalability 219

Scalability Cache Engineering Systems 219

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Timestone: Netflix’s High-Throughput, Low-Latency Priority Queueing System with Built-in Support for Non-Parallelizable Workloads by Kostas Christidis Introduction Timestone is a high-throughput, low-latency priority queueing system we built in-house to support the needs of Cosmos , our media encoding platform. Over the past 2.5

Latency 221

Latency Systems Media Serverless 221

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. Start your free trial today!

Speed 130

Speed Database Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 358

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

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

MARCH 12, 2025

Full-stack tracing: Track each user request across multiple FMs, vector databases, orchestrators (LangChain), and custom business logic. Heres how Dynatrace helps you trace and resolve the issue quickly: Proactive alerting with Davis AI You receive an alert from Dynatrace Davis AI anomaly detection indicating incorrect system behavior.

Metrics 165

Metrics Serverless Analytics Innovation 165

DZone

MARCH 11, 2025

As these systems become more complex handling sensitive data, supporting real-time queries, and interfacing with multiple services being able to trace and measure each step of the data flow and inference process becomes critical.

Monitoring 130

Monitoring Database Processing Systems 130

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Depending on how it is configured, Redis can act like a database, a cache or a message broker. It’s important to note that Redis is a NoSQL database system.

Open Source 55

Open Source Cache C++ Database 55

Percona

MAY 9, 2024

Unfortunately, MySQL databases, one of the most popular relational database management systems, is at the heart of many critical […] These breaches can be devastating, causing significant financial losses, reputational damage, and even legal repercussions.

Best Practices 133

Best Practices Database Systems 133

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.

Open Source 244

Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

All the errors seem to be caused by requests for a specific product ID or a faulty entry in the product database. This query confirms the suspicion that a particular product might be wrong. Of course, this example is somewhat easy to troubleshoot as it’s based on a built-in failure scenario.

Metrics 246

Metrics Tuning Monitoring Availability 246

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

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. This guide delves into how these systems work, the challenges they solve, and their essential role in businesses and technology.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

DZone

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Memory usage is one of the most important aspects of the database system. In this blog post, we are going to understand how databases (and PostgreSQL specifically) manage memory and how to troubleshoot low free-memory scenarios. How Databases Read Data To understand how to deal with memory, we need to understand how things work.

Operating System 245

Operating System Database Metrics Systems 245

DZone

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Among numerous database management systems, ClickHouse stands out for its originality and, one could say, a specific niche, which, in my opinion, complicates its expansion in the database market. In data analysis, the need for fast query execution and data retrieval is paramount.

Speed 262

Speed Database Systems 262

DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

PostgreSQL is one of the most popular SQL databases. It’s a go-to database for many projects dealing with Online Transaction Processing systems. How It All Started Historically, we focused on two distinct database workflows: Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP).

Analytics 263

Analytics Database Processing Systems 263

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. Engineers want their alerting system to be realtime, reliable, and actionable.

Storage 297

Storage Cache Metrics Database 297

DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2024

if you wanted to schedule a job, you could use the Cron binding component to implement recurring jobs on a regular defined schedule; for example, automating database backups, sending out recurring email notifications, running routine maintenance tasks, data processing, and ETL, running system updates and batch processing.

Scalability 318

Scalability Design Database Processing 318

DZone

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Reference data sources don’t always require ACID transaction capabilities, rather need support for fast read queries often based on simple data access patterns, and event-driven architecture to ensure the target systems remain up-to-date.

AWS 275

AWS Performance Database Architecture 275

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Managing High Availability (HA) in your PostgreSQL hosting is very important to ensuring your database deployment clusters maintain exceptional uptime and strong operational performance so your data is always available to your application. The primary server is responsible for handling all write operations and maintaining data accuracy.

Availability 257

Availability Servers Database Open Source 257

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we will explain the Redis transactional property of scripts, what this error is about, and why we must be extra careful about it on Sentinel-managed systems that can failover. Behavior on Sentinel-Monitored High Availability Systems. Sentinel -managed high availability systems add a new wrinkle to this. Learn more.

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Servers Database Availability Monitoring 239