Remove 2013 Remove Availability Remove Scalability Remove Tuning
article thumbnail

PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare PostgreSQL vs. Oracle functionality across available tools, capabilities and services. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers.

article thumbnail

InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Some cloud providers also offer specialized instances for database workloads, which may provide additional features and optimizations for performance and scalability. Static) – Requires MySQL restart for change.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Here are other key developments in company history: 2013: 10gen changes its name to MongoDB, Inc. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

article thumbnail

DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. Comments ().

Ecommerce 139
article thumbnail

Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability. Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. Going beyond Key-Value.

Games 130
article thumbnail

Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node). With the latest ClickHouse version, all of these features are available, but some of them may not perform fast enough. So can we use it as our main datastore? Deleting messages. Text search.

article thumbnail

Inspired Design Decisions With Herb Lubalin: Typography Can Be As Exciting As Illustration And Photography

Smashing Magazine

On top of basic font style properties, we can now reliably fine-tune OpenType figures, hyphenation, ligatures, and even kerning. Herb Lubalin: Art Director, Graphic Designer and Typographer” (1985) by Gertrude Snyder and Alan Peckolick is out of print, but good copies are available on eBay.

Design 116