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Building Netflix’s Distributed Tracing Infrastructure

The Netflix TechBlog

By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix. Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. Storage: don’t break the bank!

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

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5%

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MariaDB vs MySQL: Key Differences and Use Cases

Percona

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. MariaDB retains compatibility with MySQL, offers support for different programming languages, including Python, PHP, Java, and Perl, and works with all major open source storage engines such as MyRocks, Aria, and InnoDB. Contact us to learn more!

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Further, open source databases can be modified in infinite ways, enabling institutions to meet their specific needs for data storage, retrieval, and processing. Non-relational databases: Instead of tables, non-relational (NoSQL) databases use document-based data storage, column-oriented storage, and graph databases.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS US East (Ohio) Region

All Things Distributed

In the remainder of 2016 and inq 2017, we will launch another four AWS regions in Canada, China, the United Kingdom, and France, adding another nine AZs to our global infrastructure footprint. The Ohio Region launches with three AZs so that customers can create high-availability environments and architect for fault tolerance and scalability.

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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML.

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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors and SQL Server

SQL Performance

TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. HPE has already submitted a new official TPC-H result on SQL Server 2017 for a single-socket, HPE Proliant DL325 Gen10 1U server that was 743,750 QphH@1000GB. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. Conclusion.

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