The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. While a database is barely getting started at 20,000 rows, a spreadsheet could be hanging. Rahman et al.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

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

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. Examples include associations with Google Docs, Facebook chat group interactions, streaming live forex market feeds, and managing trading notices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. With multiverse databases, each user sees a consistent “parallel universe” database containing only the data that user is allowed to see.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

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

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

Open Source 82

Open Source Programming Database Servers 82