All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 06 April 2012 06:00 AM. One of the services that is very successful in driving innovation at our customers in this context is Amazon RDS , the Relational Database Service. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). hands freeÃ? and took near zero development effort.

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Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

This blog was originally published in January 2012 and was updated in June 2023. When it comes to backups, there are multiple types available, each with its own advantages and limitations. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. 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 â??

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Unlike traditional row-based relational databases, which store data for each row sequentially on disk, Amazon Redshift stores each column sequentially. This means that Redshift performs much less wasted IO than a row-based database because it doesnâ??t Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). Direct seeding of new database replicas. . Want to dive deeper?

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2019

The following demo script should be run on a development instance in a new test database set to use the SIMPLE recovery model. For SQL Server 2012 and earlier , the transition point for this particular table is 898 rows. The thresholds are not dependent on the Cardinality Estimation model in use or the database compatibility level.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2017

Today, I'm excited to announce the general availability of Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) , a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can speed up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second. DynamoDB was the first service at AWS to use SSD storage.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Netflix, we've been using these technologies as they've been made available for instance types in the AWS EC2 cloud. In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. The AMI and boot are now HVM.

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O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers. But still, I liked how Moment.js

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Modern network performance and availability. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 23, 2019

In SQL Server 2012, grouped (vector) aggregation was able to use parallel batch-mode execution, but only for the partial (per-thread) aggregate. Columnstore storage. To understand this, it is necessary to first review how columnstore storage works at a high level: A compressed row group contains a column segment for each column.

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Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

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. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Text search.

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