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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

Due to concerns in the open source software community about the future of MySQL after the acquisition, MariaDB was created in 2009 by Michael Widenius (one of the original creators of MySQL), who named the new software after his daughter Maria. InnoDB, the default engine, is known for its excellent transactional capabilities. and 10.1.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. Since 2009, Greenpeace has been putting pressure on big Internet companies to clean up their energy mix by way of their Clicking Clean campaign. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Since the launch of Spot Instances in December 2009, we have heard from a large number of customers, like Scribd , University of Melbourne/University of Barcelona , Numerate , DNAnexus , and Litmus that Spot is a great way of reducing their bills with reported savings as high as 66%. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments (). Subscribe to this weblogs.

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Powerful New Amazon EC2 Boot Features - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. While the instance is stopped it does not accrue any usage hours and customers are only charged for the storage associated with the Amazon EBS volume. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. All Things Distributed.

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. Consistently we have lowered compute, storage and bandwidth prices based on such cost savings. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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