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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Where VoltDB fits.

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Why OpenStack is like a Crowdfunded Viking Movie

VoltDB

Hardware Optimizers” want to get the maximum utilization out of hardware. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. Attendees could be broken down into several distinct groups. Where VoltDB fits.

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Azure Virtual Machines for SQL Server Usage

SQL Performance

One initial, easy step to moving your SQL Server on-premises workloads to the cloud is using Azure VMs to run your SQL Server workloads in an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) scenario. One important choice you will still have to make is what type and size of Azure virtual machine you want to use for your existing SQL Server workload.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

This type of database offers scalability with no downtime along with giving businesses control over what resources they use through customization capabilities such as choosing hardware infrastructure options or building security measures around it. These advantages come at an expense.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

Percona

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. In any case, you should benchmark both RDS MySQL and Aurora before taking the decision to migrate.

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HOW IT WORKS: SQL Server Scheduler Affinity

SQL Server According to Bob

The decision is performance driven. ​​ A memory node represents the memory associated with a group of CPUs from the physical hardware. For example: A smaller sized, SQL Azure database , ​​ using 2 CPUs , ​​ could be assigned to CPU 2 and 3 on the host machine.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Tens of petabytes of data stored in our servers and other object stores such as GCS, S3 and Azure Blobstore. Version5: files metadata in MySQL, files stored in EOS/GCS/S3/Azure and served via HTTP, search in Lucene. Version6: files metadata in MySQL, files stored in EOS/GCS/S3/Azure served via HTTP, search in Elasticsearch.