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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

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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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment.

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Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Empty Clustered Tables

SQL Performance

If both sort and no-sort alternatives are available, the optimizer will make a cost-based choice. For SQL Server 2014 and later, the uniquifier is correctly omitted for unique indexes, but the one extra byte for the internal bit flag is retained. If it can internally guarantee ordering in other ways, the Sort may be omitted.

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Using JSONB in PostgreSQL: How to Effectively Store & Index JSON Data in PostgreSQL

Scalegrid

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. 2014) added support for JSONB data type. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

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 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

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). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

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Minimal Logging with INSERT…SELECT into Heap Tables

SQL Performance

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 2014 and later , the transition point is 950 rows for this table. The thresholds are not dependent on the Cardinality Estimation model in use or the database compatibility level.

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