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MongoDB Database Backup: Best Practices & Expert Tips

Percona

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

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Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Back-to-the-Future Weekend Reading - CryptDB - All Things.

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That goes especially for the interaction between applications and storage engines, and between applications and databases. You can download the CryptDB software from here. In last years SOSP Hari Balakrishnans group at MIT CSAIL team presented a paper on CryptDB which has a novel SQL-aware encryption approach. Contact Info.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

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By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. Comments ().

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Comments ().

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

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In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure. In 2014 and 2015 respectively, AWS opened offices in Stockholm and Espoo, Finland.

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