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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

​​MongoDB is a schemaless database that is extremely flexible. MongoDB does not require any ALTER statement to modify the schema of a collection, like in a relational database. When you create a collection, you don’t have to specify a structure in advance, providing field names and data types.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

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. Amazon DynamoDB รข?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. How are we able to do this? As Amazonรข??s

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What Adrian Did Next?โ€”?Part 2?โ€”?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Jim Mauro and Allan Packer visited on rotation from New Jersey, and Adelaide Australia, and worked out how to produce a database sizing guide for Oracle Financials, which I wrote up and published. Jim also joined the database performance team.

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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Data redundancy, a database version of a RAID Pondering the case of high availability and redundancy, one replicates data by creating a replica via streaming replication. Extension citus has been created in database db01. Now let’s stretch our imagination and consider a second method of high availability, ala Citus.

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click โ€œsubmit,โ€ scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. You analyze what your staff does to process an invoice, and then design a system to perform that process.

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