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The Ultimate Guide to Database Corruption: Part 2 – B-Tree Index Corruption

Percona

This blog is in continuation of my previous blog on the basic understanding of corruption with the subject line The Ultimate Guide to Database Corruption: Part 1 – An Overview. Some case studies will also be covered in this blog. Case studies. Case 3 – Incorrect index format. Introduction.

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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs

InfoQ

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 133
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Enterprise Cloud Security Strategy For 2024

Scalegrid

The impact of cloud security failures is evident from high-profile cases of data breaches that continue to cause damage by eroding customer trust and undermining a company’s credibility in the market. This ensures the highest level of protection for data stored in these databases on the cloud.

Strategy 130
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Announcing the Availability of Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.0

Percona

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). Feedback, adoption and usage data, bug reports, success stories, case studies, testimonials — all these are contributions.

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Why test data management is more important than you think

Testsigma

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. Data can be present in different formats, different databases and different types. Copy production data i.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

We have already seen customers successfully run HPC workloads, Hadoop-based jobs (as shown in the BackType case study), and testing simulations (as shown in the BrowserMob case study) on Spot. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. Syndication.

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

Percona

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 ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

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