Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

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 According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. Comments ().

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. The requirements for a fully hosted cloud database service needed to be at an even higher bar than what we had set for our Amazon internal system. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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