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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For February 1st, 2019

High Scalability

The AGC weighed 70 pounds and had 2048 words of RAM in erasable core memory and 36,864 words of ROM in core rope memory. Glacier is cheap because it isn't "always ready" storage. It's HighScalability time: Memory module for the Apollo Guidance Computer (Mike Stewart). It flew to the moon. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Need cloud?

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Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Percona

Disk-level encryption is a security measure that encrypts all data stored on a disk or storage device. Disk-level encryption is a security measure that encrypts all data stored on a disk or storage device. Cluster-level encryption is a security measure that encrypts data stored in a cluster of servers or storage devices. .

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Why does my SSD not issue 1MB IO’s?

n0derunner

To achieve the maximum throughput on a storage device, we will usually use a large IO size to maximize the amount of data is transferred per IO request. For historical reasons, many storage testers will use a 1MB IO size for sequential testing. 8 Sectors = 4KB 128 Sectors = 64KB 1024 Sectors = 512KB 2048 Sectors = 1024KB (1MB).

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

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