High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency.

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Dynatrace

MAY 13, 2022

Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed, NoSQL database. Because of its scalability and distributed architecture, thousands of companies trust it to run their cloud and hybrid-based workloads at high availability without compromising performance. Microsoft Azure offers multiple ways to manage Apache Cassandra databases.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Delay is Not an Option: Low Latency Routing in Space , Murat ). Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. Here's some fancy FCC reverse engineering magic. Do you like this sort of Stuff? Please support me on Patreon. I'd really appreciate it. Lots of leftovers.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

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InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It's HighScalability time: Have a very scalable Xmas everyone! What could be better than a book on the cloud? Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. swardley: X : What's going to happen in cloud in 2019? 2) Cloud will decentralise in terms of provision not power i.e. Amazon will "invade" more of those holdouts with AWS Outpost.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

We will use a graph database such as Neo4j to store the information. Additionally, we can use columnar databases like Cassandra to store information like user feeds, activities, and counters. When a user requests for feed then there will be two parallel threads involved in fetching the user feeds to optimize for latency.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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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.

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Simform

JULY 20, 2022

As the number of Snapchat users increased to millions, the company required a database solution that could scale and adapt to changing daily needs. Eventually, Snap’s wise selection of databases resulted in lower latency, desired scalability, and infrastructure cost savings.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. Dynatrace news. What is AWS Lambda?

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. ScaleGrid offers a compelling alternative to hosting MySQL on AWS that offers better performance, more control, and no cloud vendor lock-in and the same price as Amazon RDS.

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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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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. This enables customers to serve content to their end users with low latency, giving them the best application experience.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, when monitoring a database, you’ll want to know about any latency when writing data to a disk or average query response time. Experienced database administrators learn to spot patterns that can lead to common problems. DevOps practitioners struggle to maintain highly available and scalable applications.

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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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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Complementing the hardware is the software on the RAE and in the cloud, and bridging the software on both ends is a bi-directional control plane. The challenge, then, is to be able to ingest and process these events in a scalable manner, i.e., scaling with the number of devices, which will be the focus of this blog post.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. In traditional database architectures, database engines often run a small search engine or data warehouse engines on the same hardware as the database. DynamoDB Cross-region Replication.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 17, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud: Faster, More Flexible Queries with DynamoDB. While DynamoDB already allows you to perform low-latency queries based on your tableâ??s All Things Distributed. By Werner Vogels on 17 April 2013 10:30 AM. Comments (). Today, Iâ??m

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

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. Traditionally, these connections have been stored in relational databases, with each object type requiring its own table. Enter graph databases.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Metrics are measures of critical system values, such as CPU utilization or average write latency to persistent storage. Observability platforms are becoming essential as the complexity of cloud-native architectures increases. A database could start executing a storage management process that consumes database server resources.

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

and enable you to maintain a nearly up-to-date copy of your master database in a different AWS Region. Availability Zones have since become the foundational elements for AWS customers to create a new generation of highly available distributed applications in the cloud that are designed to be fault tolerant from the get go.

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The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs Tan et al., If you’re moving an OLAP workload to the cloud (AWS in the context of this paper), what DBMS setup should you go with? It is advantageous in the cloud to shut down compute resources when they are not being used, but there is then a query latency cost.

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O'Reilly Software

JUNE 12, 2018

The advent of the cloud was a huge boon to the work we were doing, as the improved automation made us even more productive. Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. But I kept hitting up against some fundamental issues. And data was at the heart of the problem.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform.

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. The asynchronous and distributed model has the benefits of loose coupling and selective scalability, but it also creates new challenges.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. Anyhow, we are here to talk about Proxies.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 2, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. Japanese companies and consumers have become used to low latency and high-speed networking available between their businesses, residences, and mobile devices. Expanding the Cloud â??

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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. Anna is not only incredibly fast, it’s incredibly efficient and elastic too: an autoscaling, multi-tier, selectively-replicating cloud service. What's changed ? Related Articles.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform analyzes data in an automated and scalable manner. A single OneAgent instance can handle the monitoring of many types of entities, including servers, applications, services, databases, and more. For example, what if: Your IBM MQ queue manager is losing messages, and you don’t know why?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Customers can provision up to 10,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) per database instance to help ensure that their databases can run the most stringent workloads with rock solid, consistent performance.

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