Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

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Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

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. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

The Pantheon in Rome — Extremely sustainable architecture — photo by Adrian I wrote a medium post after AWS re:Invent 2022 summarizing the (lack of) news and all the talks related to Sustainability. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

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. We found the answers at the Postgres Conference in March where we surveyed PostgreSQL users, contributors, and SQL and NoSQL database administrators alike.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As this open source database continues to pull new users from expensive commercial database management systems like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server, organizations are adopting new approaches and evolving their own to maintain the exceptional performance of their SQL deployments. of PostgreSQL cloud use compared to 55.0%

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Strategy Cloud Java Open Source 182

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.

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Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. AWS EKS for Integration and Production. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 104

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 104

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

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Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 118

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

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Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 110

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. As such, you save on storage space and data transfer in case of cloud setups. It’s time for the release roundup!

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Open Source Storage AWS Cloud 83

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. No, I don’t think that is because AWS is earning a 355x margin on DynamoDB! Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc.

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Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

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Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate to data on disk. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

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AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 91

Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. Fortunately, there are ways to skip the local storage entirely and stream MongoDB backups directly to the destination.

AWS 119

AWS Storage Database Open Source 119

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In a time when modern microservices are easier to deploy, GCF, like its counterparts AWS Lambda and Microsoft Azure Functions , gives development teams an agility boost for delivering value to their customers quickly with low overhead costs. Avoid lock-in with open-source technologies. What is Google Cloud Functions?

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Google Cloud Serverless Azure 221

The Polyglot Developer

APRIL 6, 2017

When building a mobile application, there are often scenarios where you need to storage files remotely and when I say files, I don’t mean database data. For example, maybe you want to develop an image manager or photo storage solution like what Facebook and Instagram offer?

Storage 59

Storage Cloud Open Source Mobile 59

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups , which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Well, it is because we believe that open source philosophy is not only about the source but also about design and decision-making.

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Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 75

Percona

APRIL 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. does not support making backups of databases created in MySQL 8.0, It’s time for the release roundup!

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Open Source Servers AWS Database 77

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It’s not just limited to cloud resources like AWS and Azure; Terraform is versatile, extending its capabilities to key performance areas like Content Delivery Network (CDN) management, ensuring efficient content delivery and optimal user experience.‍Started ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

To briefly explain pgBackRest, it is an open source backup tool that takes FULL Backup, Incremental Backup, and Differential Backup for PostgreSQL databases. This attribute helps take the redundant copies of the databases at multiple locations remotely on different servers or locally on the same server. Scenarios: 1.

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Servers Azure AWS Cloud 82

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. Logs can also be used to represent event data.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

There are several popular cloud-based platforms for web development and deployment, such as AWS , Azure , and Google Cloud Platform. Each of these platforms offers a wide range of services and tools for web application development and deployment, including storage, databases, and serverless computing.

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Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, Amazon Web Services (AWS) paved the way with its service, CloudFormation, which introduced the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Taking inspiration from AWS's CloudFormation, HashiCorp introduced Terraform with a broader vision. Take Cloudflare as an example; they have an entire service called Cloudflare Terraform.

Open Source 40

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 40

High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost. kellabyte : “Open source” infrastructure companies are a giant s**t show right now. And if you know someone with hearing problems they might find Live CC useful. 202,157 flights tracked!

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Serverless 137

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. Our cluster size ranges from 12–18 instances of AWS EC2 m4.4xlarge instances, typically running at ~30% capacity. *?—?Cassandra

Lambda 189

Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

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. Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency.

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Scalability Analytics Cache AWS 130

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. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52