Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

MARCH 29, 2023

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service for highly demanding enterprise database workloads. Through our partnership, customers can utilize Dynatrace alongside AlloyDB to gain more visibility and insights into data stored across databases and locations, including in AlloyDB.”

Google 217

Google Metrics Cloud Analytics 217

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” A data warehouse, on the other hand, is an efficient and fast option for querying data.

Analytics 184

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 184

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. The public cloud’s ability to scale efficiently enables ‘cloudbursting’ when demand spikes without requiring businesses to overprovision their own infrastructures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 77

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 77

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

Database 167

Database AWS Games Latency 167

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Fast Data is an emerging industry term for information that is arriving at high volume and incredible rates, faster than traditional databases can manage. While caching continues to be a dominant use of ElastiCache for Redis, we see customers increasingly use it as an in-memory NoSQL database. Building upon Redis.

Scalability 130

Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

Best Practices 89

Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 89

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Most approaches focus on improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a data center energy-efficiency measure. energy-efficient data centers—cloud providers—achieve values closer to 1.2. This computational efficiency also reduces energy consumption, which in turn reduces carbon emissions. A PUE of 1.0

Cloud 205

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache 205

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., When each of those use cases is powered by a dedicated back-end, investments in better performance, improved scalability and efficiency etc. Given sufficient memory, Procella can essentially become an in-memory database. VLDB’19.

Analytics 75

Analytics Latency Cache Google 75

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

To take full advantage of the scalability, flexibility, and resilience of cloud platforms, organizations need to build or rearchitect applications around a cloud-native architecture. Taken together, these features enable organizations to build software that is more scalable, reliable, and flexible than traditionally built software.

Cloud 162

Cloud Architecture Serverless Infrastructure 162

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. It’s used for data management (shocker), application development, and data analytics. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 80

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 80

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud.

Big Data 111

Big Data Analytics AWS Cloud 111

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. The “scheduler” determines the placement of new containers so compute resources are used most efficiently. In production, containers are easy to replicate. What is Docker? Networking.

Open Source 298

Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 298

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Real-Time Device Tracking with In-Memory Computing Can Fill an Important Gap in Today’s Streaming Analytics Platforms. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? The list goes on.

IoT 78

IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

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. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only.

Database 40

Database Analytics Blockchain Healthcare 40

ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Real-Time Digital Twins Can Add Important New Capabilities to Telematics Systems and Eliminate Scalability Bottlenecks. Rapid advances in the telematics industry have dramatically boosted the efficiency of vehicle fleets and have found wide ranging applications from long haul transport to usage-based insurance.

Analytics 52

Analytics Architecture Scalability Software Architecture 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

We earned the trust of our engineers by developing empathy for their operational burden and by focusing on providing efficient tracer library integrations in runtime environments. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

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.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The HammerDB name.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

APRIL 1, 2021

Keeping track of performance, response time, and efficiency can be cumbersome, especially when teams use a multicloud strategy that spans cloud environments and on-premises systems. The benefit is scalability. The DS database had been reconfigured, which impacted 400 users.

Azure 170

Azure AWS DevOps Cloud 170

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 8, 2020

It inherits the automation, AI, scalability, and enterprise-grade robustness of the Dynatrace platform. With new RASP capabilities of the Dynatrace OneAgent, the same trusted approach extends the Dynatrace platform to application security: automatic, intelligent, highly scalable.

Cloud 287

Cloud Open Source Internet Internet 287

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the database world there are essentially two types of database operations: Online Transaction Processing , OLTP : Online transaction processing applications have high throughput and are insert- or update-intensive in database management. But while eminently capable of performing OLAP, it’s not quite as efficient.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. It’s not enough just to pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

To keep operations efficient and cost-effective, it’s important to be able to quickly respond to issues as they occur and efficiently verify their resolution. It’s not enough to just pick out interesting events from an aggregated data stream and then send them to a database for offline analysis using Spark.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Testsigma

JUNE 26, 2021

If we talk about testing itself — automation has taken us several leaps ahead; QA teams have solidified test efficiency and coverage even further. Cloud-based: You can run your tests on a secure, scalable cloud that comes with thousands of real devices. Get efficient test automation being codeless with Testsigma. Signup Now.

Testing Tools 52

Testing Tools Testing Analytics Mobile 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

There are several problems efficient test scheduling could help us solve: Quickly detect a regression in the integration of the Netflix SDK on a consumer electronic or MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor) device. We wanted the to tool be available as a standalone library as well as scalable API service.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Do you have a database? Was the database running? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? The last item to check was if the web server was able to talk to the database? Scalability. The recipe was straightforward. Do you have a web server? Is the web server running?

Systems 74

Systems Monitoring Hardware Network 74

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. Microsoft have a paper describing their new recovery mechanism in Azure SQL Database , the key feature being that it can recovery in constant time.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67