Percona

JULY 7, 2023

With the average cost of unplanned downtime running from $300,000 to $500,000 per hour , businesses are increasingly using high availability (HA) technologies to maximize application uptime. Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

Database 166

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Wondering which high availability framework to use for your PostgreSQL deployments ? We compared the top 3 frameworks, PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) vs. Replication Manager (repmgr) vs. Patroni , in our Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL series. PostgreSQL High Availability Framework Infographic.

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Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

DZone

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how you can migrate a comprehensive web application from MySQL to YugabyteDB using the open-source data migration engine YugabyteDB Voyager. Nowadays, many people migrate their applications from traditional, single-server relational databases to distributed database clusters.

Open Source 286

Open Source Scalability Database Servers 286

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. Why not have this built it into the server?

Database 184

Database Open Source Storage Servers 184

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I played a bit with ChatGPT in February to see how it would respond to random database-related inquiries, and I found it pretty impressive and annoying at the same time. significantly enhanced downgrade compatibility by introducing changes that make it easier for downgraded databases to interoperate with older MongoDB versions.

Database 87

Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 87

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

In this blog, I will be going through a step-by-step guide on how to automate SRE-driven performance engineering. If you have a distributed environment with multiple servers hosting your webservers, app servers, and database, I suggest you install the OneAgent on all these servers to get full end-to-end visibility.

Engineering 189

Engineering Performance Metrics Best Practices 189

Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

MySQL is an outstanding open source transactional database used by most web-based applications and is very good at handling OLTP workloads. ClickHouse is a columnar database that handles analytical workloads quickly. I am going to use the MaterializedMySQL engine for this purpose. The blog post contains the following topics.

Engineering 89

Engineering Database Servers Analytics 89

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2019

With OneAgent installed on an application server, Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine, continuously analyzes all database statements within the context of your applications. Now, with Oracle database insights, we’re going even deeper, giving you visibility into what’s going on in the database layer.

Database 127

Database Metrics Cache Servers 127

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. Redis™, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. Three distinct modes are available within MySQL when setting up your binary logs’ format.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Scalegrid

APRIL 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 185

Database Cloud Open Source Azure 185

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

To be a client systems engineer is to take joy in small endpoint automations that make your fellow employees’ day a little better. They can also facilitate automations that require information available only in the “login window” context, such as the provided username and password. We call this new tool Escrow Buddy.

Open Source 194

Open Source Database Servers Storage 194

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. million AI server units annually by 2027, consuming 75.4+

Cache 201

Cache Azure Infrastructure Monitoring 201

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. Engineering decisions involve making lots of trade-offs.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Your MySQL connection id is 256 Server version: 8.0.32-24.2 mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 _authors_new OK.

Database 96

Database Performance C++ Engineering 96

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2022

This automatic analysis enables engineers to spend more time innovating and improving business operations. An IT organization is often unaware a critical server has gone down until a user reports it. The script then restarts the web service and checks the server’s health. An example of the self-healing web.

Artificial Intelligence 183

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Servers Database 183

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 340

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 340

SQL Shack

MARCH 21, 2019

In the previous article of this series on the SQL Server transaction log, we discuss the SQL Server database recovery models, Full, Simple and Bulk-Logged, and the how the recovery model option of the database affects the way the SQL Server Engine works with the transaction logs.

Servers 53

Servers Availability Database Engineering 53

SQL Performance

JULY 19, 2022

The simplest definition of a log record: it describes a single change to a database. A single operation in the database may cause multiple changes , but each change will usually have its own log record to describe it. out of space on the log drive), the database must be set offline in the SUSPECT state. What Are Log Records?

Servers 94

Servers Database Storage Engineering 94

Dotcom-Montior

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The role and responsibilities of a site reliability engineer (SRE) may vary depending on the size of the organization. For the most part, a site reliability engineer is focused on multiple tasks and projects at one time, so for most SREs, the various tools they use reflect their eve-evolving responsibilities. Programming Languages.

Engineering 86

Engineering Open Source Programming Monitoring 86

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

If you want to go fast, a top fuel dragster will set you back close to a million dollars by the time you buy the chassis, spare engines, tooling, and transporter. Both MySQL and PostgreSQL do the basics very well From a high level, one relational database management system is pretty much like every other relational database management system.

Database 119

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 119

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

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. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JUNE 1, 2023

Hello friends, on certain occasions, some clients, for whatever reason, ask us to migrate a supposedly “equivalent” brand of an engine in terms of belonging to the MySQL family or ecosystem. In this case, we will be analyzing the migration of MariaDB to Percona Server for MySQL 8 in particular. Simple, right?

Servers 73

Servers Database Testing Open Source 73

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2019

July 17, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for PostgreSQL hosting in the cloud. The database is also widely loved for PostgreSQL extensions which enable users to extend the functionality of their database. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Azure AWS Open Source Database 182

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. Questions Q: I have a MySQL server with 500 GB of RAM; my data set is 100 GB. A commonly recommended value for the buffer pool size is between 50% to 75% of the available memory.

Social Media 121

Social Media Database Servers Cache 121

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database. The problem with the IIS server access logs was the headers. Victims include large financial institutions, government agencies, and other critical service providers.

Database 156

Database Government Games Servers 156

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage.

Cloud 119

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 119

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A handful of lock types (Database, Metadata, LOGIN_STATS, …) are eligible for lock partitioning. For example: When ‘use database’ takes place the session acquires a shared lock on database. Only distinct changes require an exclusive database lock, for example a drop database.

Servers 103

Servers Database Scalability Tuning 103