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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 ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Scalability. Oracle Enterprise is recommended for high workloads which are highly scalable, but costly.

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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. I hope this helps!

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

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. In 2010, having seemingly gone all-in with the tenets of open source development , the company brought MongoDB to the market as an open source database server.

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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed. 5000 named Percona to their list in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems.

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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). Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. So can we use it as our main datastore? downvotes','upvote','drupal','android','upvoted'] ? ?

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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. Better still is “Herb Lubalin: American Graphic Designer” (2013) by Adrian Shaughnessy and published by Unit Editions. SVG includes other properties which fine-tune aspects of a stroke.

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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. If it does, you will benefit from its scalability, availability, resilience, low cost, and minimal operational overhead.

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