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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Our co-founder, 2014 Turing Award winner, Mike Stonebraker , has a saying: “ Eventual consistency means ‘creates garbage.’”

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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. Our co-founder, 2014 Turing Award winner, Mike Stonebraker , has a saying: “ Eventual consistency means ‘creates garbage.’”

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. How would you _time_ time?

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

Percona

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). In this presentation, we will look at how we can use MySQL to engineer distributed multi-node systems. Register Now. Register for the webinar.

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

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. Processed 4.15