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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

Their database model later become known as NoSQL, although it was implemented on top of Oracle, each database held one table and indexes, and there were many sharded Oracle databases for each data set so it could be scaled horizontally as well. It was a great opportunity to explore new technologies and broaden my experience.

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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. However, ClickHouse is super efficient for timeseries and provides “sharding” out of the box (scalability beyond one node).

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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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5 tips for architecting fast data applications

O'Reilly Software

Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components.