Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Chatbots and virtual assistants Chatbots and virtual assistants are becoming more common on websites and web applications as they provide an efficient and convenient way for users to interact with a business. The main benefits of serverless architecture are cost savings and scalability.

Artificial Intelligence 111

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. HyperScale Database. DTU Pricing Tier.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. Enter graph databases.

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Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

Percona

MARCH 21, 2023

Tenants Multi-tenancy is a software architecture pattern where a single instance of a software application serves multiple tenants, allowing them to share resources like storage, processing power, and memory while maintaining separate, secure access to their respective data.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Infrastructure monitoring Infrastructure monitoring reviews servers, storage, network connections, virtual machines, and other data center elements that support applications.

DevOps 225

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VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

This goal has been attempted to be addressed from the beginning of time: think of Object Oriented Programming, Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus and now Microservices. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database.

Architecture 40

Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. Virtualized in Hardware**: Hardware support for virtualization, and near bare-metal speeds.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Today’s streaming analytics architectures are not equipped to make sense of this rapidly changing information and react to it as it arrives. Incoming data is saved into data storage (historian database or log store) for query by operational managers who must attempt to find the highest priority issues that require their attention.

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IoT Analytics Big Data Architecture 78

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

Tuning 134

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HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. mongos --configdb <configReplSetName>/<cfg1.example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

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Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In both cases, when using virtually-synchronous replication, the process will require certification from each node and local (by node) write; as such, the number of writes is NOT distributed across multiple nodes but duplicated. Also, in the case of multi-Primary, the writes will be distributed by transaction. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 121

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 121

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Without further ado, let’s start with the OS settings.

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HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. So to test I took a system with Skylake CPUs and all storage on a P4800X SSD. In the recent MySQL 8.0.16

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). Capability integrity prevents direct in-memory manipulation of architectural capability encodings. ASPLOS’19.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse. Classic ETL. then ELT is a more preferred option.

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Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Flock is Microsoft’s reference architecture built to explore these ideas. Models themselves must be subject to scrutiny with their storage and querying/scoring secured and auditable. Treating models as first-class data types in a DBMS allows database transactions to be used for model updates. Data management.

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Government Software Engineering Storage Database 95

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

ScaleOut Software

JULY 14, 2021

The Microsoft Azure IoT ecosystem offers a rich set of capabilities for processing IoT telemetry, from its arrival in the cloud through its storage in databases and data lakes. It shows how real-time digital twins are distributed across multiple virtual servers organized into an in-memory computing cluster connected to Azure IoT Hub.

IoT 52

IoT Azure Analytics Serverless 52

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors. Single-Socket Database Servers. I would argue that the advantages of the AMD EPYC 7002 Series include: A more modern modular architecture. I/O lanes. Higher memory density/capacity.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Jim Mauro and Allan Packer visited on rotation from New Jersey, and Adelaide Australia, and worked out how to produce a database sizing guide for Oracle Financials, which I wrote up and published. Jim also joined the database performance team.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

There are two fundamental technologies/approaches in the heart of Frankenstein Migration: Microservices architecture , and. Microservices Architecture. Microservices architecture is a set of independent services that are all connected into a network. Web Components. I’ll repeat the things you need to keep in mind: “independent”.

Architecture 74

Architecture Virtualization Servers Technology 74

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider. This level of granularity is not found in UI-managed systems.Â

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands.

Cloud 40

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

As more computing resources are needed to handle a growing workload, virtual servers (also called cloud “ instances ”) can be added to take up the slack. Like the applications they serve, IMDGs are deployed as a cluster of cloud-hosted virtual servers that scales as the workload demands.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

When you codify infrastructure, you can integrate it with DevOps pipelines to automate various tasks like server provisioning, database scale, and security audits. Terraform's declarative nature makes this adaptation straightforward.‍Consider an example where a company is running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a cloud provider.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Another important aspect of an enterprise with respect to testers is its distributed architecture. For testers, the main focus is the internal architecture used while designing the products. This includes the design principles, server communications or data transfers and storage. Cross-browser testing and Enterprises.

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