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Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world. These software platform solutions helps users easily manage their database operations without having to really understand any of the abstractions. This allows developers, DBA’s and DevOps engineers to quickly automate their backups, create new SQL and NoSQL clusters, and monitor the performance of their databases for their application without requiring any internal database expertise. MORE
A graph database is a type of NoSQL database that is based on graph theory. Graph databases are ideal for storing data that has complex many to many relationships. In this article, we will study the very basics of graph databases with the help of a simple example. Characteristics of a Graph Database A graph […]. DBAtools Graph database Monitoring Reports MORE
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? Polyglot Persistence Trends : Number of Databases Used & Top Combinations. 2019 Top Databases Used. MORE
In this article, we will discuss the best practices that should be followed in order to keep the TempDB database in a healthy state and prevent any unexpected growth of the database, in addition to the procedure that can be followed to detect this unexpected growth once occurred. MORE
Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA , an AWS customer. They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributers of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, and tools. MORE
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain an active, point-in-time copy of your production data. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL. MORE
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combos & Top Reasons Used Click To Tweet. MORE
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. A policy just needs to be a deterministic function of a given update’s record data and the database contents. MORE
Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. SQL Databases. NoSQL Databases. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%. MORE
Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. The rationale was simple: the data I need is already in this other database, and accessing a database is easy, so I’ll just reach in and grab what I need. MORE
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. MORE
Applying DevOps principles and practices to the database can make software development processes faster, better and cheaper. Yet most companies do not include their databases in their DevOps initiatives because they face a variety of challenges to make it work. MORE
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? MORE
This article explores the usage of TempDB and different ways to shrink the TempDB database in SQL Server Each instance of Microsoft SQL Server has a system database TempDB. Let’s review the TempDB database and its usage with ways to shrink the TempDB database in the […]. MORE
Summary There is a multitude of database metrics that we can collect and use to help us understand database and server resource consumption, as well as overall usage. We can also examine database metadata, including row counts, waits, and […]. MORE
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. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. MORE
In this article, we will review how to set up Geo-Replication on Azure SQL databases. Geo-Replication is an Azure SQL database feature that allows you to create a readable secondary database in the same region or cross-region. MORE
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. As any WordPress developer knows, each installation requires a database in the backend, and MySQL is the database of choice for storing and retrieving your WordPress data. Unlimited Databases. How to Setup Your MySQL Database & Admin User for WordPress. MORE
With OneAgent installed on an application server, Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine, continuously analyzes all database statements within the context of your applications. Resolve performance problems rooted in the Oracle database layer. Why is your database statement slow? MORE
View-centric performance optimization for database-backed web applications Yang et al., you are doing the count in the database, right?). ICSE 2019. MORE
In this article, we will review how to monitor AWS RDS SQL Server database instances and setup email notifications using event subscriptions and CloudWatch alarms. Database monitoring is one of the important tasks of a database administrator to ensure availability and performance. MORE
It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters. MORE
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. MORE
PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. If you are planning to build a large 24/7 operation, the ability to easily operate the database once it is in production becomes a very important factor. This is a standard built-in feature in many of the new NoSQL databases, and PostgreSQL would do great to take a leaf out of their books when it comes to operations. MORE
Wondering which databases are trending in 2019 ? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. MORE
June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif., MORE
It's easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems. It is a recursive method that can be used at any scale, from a data center with many types of databases cooperating as one, to a single server and drilling down to a single query. MORE
What space savings should you expect when running databases with default compression in a Nutanix cluster? The TPCx-HCI benchmark mimics a database consolidation setup, meaning that there are many databases per host. Compressability. MORE
It’s easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems. MORE
At first glance, it may seem like a new type of database. However, a closer look shows that blockchain and translytical databases are better together. Blockchain as a Database Isn’t Enough for the Enterprise. NewSQL Databases for Blockchain Innovation. MORE
It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. MORE
So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. The post Database Resolutions for 2018 appeared first on VoltDB. MORE
These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. MORE
Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. It’s also a good way to determine which components of the database can be enhanced or optimized to increase your efficiency and performance. This is usually done through monitoring software and tools either built-in to the database management software or installed from third-party providers. MORE
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users. Databases Most Commonly Used with ScyllaDB. This number is more inline with our recent 2019 Open Source Database Trends Report where 56.9% MORE
If so, you may have heard about the Azure SQL Database DTU calculator , and you may have also read about how it has been reverse engineered by Andy Mallon. Database – Log Bytes Flushed/sec. I created a table called [AzureDatabaseDTUData] and stored it in the SentryOne database. MORE
Databases are special because they’re stateful, and DevOps reflects this: in practice, databases are a lot harder to “DevOps” (as a verb) than other parts of the stack. In more detail, What research shows about DevOps, databases, and company performance. MORE
Severalnines has spent the last several years writing blogs and crafting content to help make your open source database solutions highly available. MORE
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. The first thing to consider when weighing between self-management and a MySQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution is what internal resources you have available. MORE
IPA: invariant-preserving applications for weakly consistent replicated databases Balegas et al., VLDB’19. IPA for developers, happy days! MORE
Updating graph databases with Cypher Green et al., Our understanding of updates in the popular graph database model… is still very rudimentary. Violations of atomicity and non-deterministic update behaviour certainly don’t sound like the kind of things you want in a database!! MORE
Summary Database metrics can be collected, maintained, and used to help predict when processes go awry so problems can be resolved before they become severe. MORE
Sometimes, when you are performing unit or integration tests whilst developing code, you need to be able to do something extreme, such as mangling a test database or two, repeatedly, each time subsequently restoring it to its original state before running the next test. database performance sql testing unit testing clone MORE
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. It is not available for our in-memory database offerings like hosting for Redis™*. Database Dev/Test Setup. By using follower clusters, you can periodically import data from your production database into the dev/test database. Follower syncing does not perform any database level operations – it merely restores the latest snapshot! MORE
Database Related Topics Scalegrid
MARCH 4, 2019
Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? Get the latest insights on MySQL , MongoDB , PostgreSQL , Redis , and many others to see which database management systems are most favored this year. SQL Databases. NoSQL Databases. NoSQL Database Use: 39.52%.
Scalegrid
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
PostgreSQL is an amazing relational database. However, beyond just the features, there are other important aspects of a database that need to be considered. If you are planning to build a large 24/7 operation, the ability to easily operate the database once it is in production becomes a very important factor. This is a standard built-in feature in many of the new NoSQL databases, and PostgreSQL would do great to take a leaf out of their books when it comes to operations.
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High Scalability
JUNE 27, 2019
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular?
Scalegrid
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users. Databases Most Commonly Used with ScyllaDB. This number is more inline with our recent 2019 Open Source Database Trends Report where 56.9%
SQL Shack
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Summary There is a multitude of database metrics that we can collect and use to help us understand database and server resource consumption, as well as overall usage. We can also examine database metadata, including row counts, waits, and […].
DZone
JUNE 7, 2019
It's easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems. It is a recursive method that can be used at any scale, from a data center with many types of databases cooperating as one, to a single server and drilling down to a single query.
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. As any WordPress developer knows, each installation requires a database in the backend, and MySQL is the database of choice for storing and retrieving your WordPress data. Unlimited Databases. How to Setup Your MySQL Database & Admin User for WordPress.
Scalegrid
APRIL 2, 2019
PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combos & Top Reasons Used Click To Tweet.
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. A policy just needs to be a deterministic function of a given update’s record data and the database contents.
Dynatrace
AUGUST 12, 2019
With OneAgent installed on an application server, Davis, the Dynatrace AI causation engine, continuously analyzes all database statements within the context of your applications. Resolve performance problems rooted in the Oracle database layer. Why is your database statement slow?
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.
DZone
APRIL 22, 2019
Sometimes, when you are performing unit or integration tests whilst developing code, you need to be able to do something extreme, such as mangling a test database or two, repeatedly, each time subsequently restoring it to its original state before running the next test. database performance sql testing unit testing clone
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Updating graph databases with Cypher Green et al., Our understanding of updates in the popular graph database model… is still very rudimentary. Violations of atomicity and non-deterministic update behaviour certainly don’t sound like the kind of things you want in a database!!
Scalegrid
JUNE 11, 2019
Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? Or, considering adding a new database to your application and want to see which combinations are most popular? Polyglot Persistence Trends : Number of Databases Used & Top Combinations. 2019 Top Databases Used.
Highly Scalable
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases.
High Scalability
JANUARY 4, 2019
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is quickly gaining in popularity across the tech world. These software platform solutions helps users easily manage their database operations without having to really understand any of the abstractions. This allows developers, DBA’s and DevOps engineers to quickly automate their backups, create new SQL and NoSQL clusters, and monitor the performance of their databases for their application without requiring any internal database expertise.
SQL Shack
JANUARY 13, 2020
In this article, we will discuss the best practices that should be followed in order to keep the TempDB database in a healthy state and prevent any unexpected growth of the database, in addition to the procedure that can be followed to detect this unexpected growth once occurred.
High Scalability
JUNE 8, 2018
Severalnines has spent the last several years writing blogs and crafting content to help make your open source database solutions highly available.
n0derunner
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
What space savings should you expect when running databases with default compression in a Nutanix cluster? The TPCx-HCI benchmark mimics a database consolidation setup, meaning that there are many databases per host. Compressability.
Baron Schwartz
MAY 31, 2019
Applying DevOps principles and practices to the database can make software development processes faster, better and cheaper. Yet most companies do not include their databases in their DevOps initiatives because they face a variety of challenges to make it work.
High Scalability
JANUARY 22, 2020
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. Unlike cloning or replication, this allows you to maintain an active, point-in-time copy of your production data. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Baron Schwartz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Databases are special because they’re stateful, and DevOps reflects this: in practice, databases are a lot harder to “DevOps” (as a verb) than other parts of the stack. In more detail, What research shows about DevOps, databases, and company performance.
VoltDB
JANUARY 12, 2018
So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. The post Database Resolutions for 2018 appeared first on VoltDB.
Baron Schwartz
MAY 29, 2019
It’s easy for modern, distributed, high-scale applications to hide database performance and efficiency problems.
SQL Shack
AUGUST 16, 2019
A graph database is a type of NoSQL database that is based on graph theory. Graph databases are ideal for storing data that has complex many to many relationships. In this article, we will study the very basics of graph databases with the help of a simple example. Characteristics of a Graph Database A graph […]. DBAtools Graph database Monitoring Reports
SQL Shack
JULY 15, 2019
In this article, we will review how to set up Geo-Replication on Azure SQL databases. Geo-Replication is an Azure SQL database feature that allows you to create a readable secondary database in the same region or cross-region.
SQL Shack
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
Summary Database metrics can be collected, maintained, and used to help predict when processes go awry so problems can be resolved before they become severe.
VoltDB
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
At first glance, it may seem like a new type of database. However, a closer look shows that blockchain and translytical databases are better together. Blockchain as a Database Isn’t Enough for the Enterprise. NewSQL Databases for Blockchain Innovation.
O'Reilly Software
JUNE 12, 2018
Back then, the most common pattern I saw for service-based systems was sharing a database among multiple services. The rationale was simple: the data I need is already in this other database, and accessing a database is easy, so I’ll just reach in and grab what I need.
The Morning Paper
JULY 11, 2019
View-centric performance optimization for database-backed web applications Yang et al., you are doing the count in the database, right?). ICSE 2019.
Percona
AUGUST 31, 2018
It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries.
SQL Shack
AUGUST 15, 2019
This article explores the usage of TempDB and different ways to shrink the TempDB database in SQL Server Each instance of Microsoft SQL Server has a system database TempDB. Let’s review the TempDB database and its usage with ways to shrink the TempDB database in the […].
SQL Shack
APRIL 9, 2019
In this article, we will review how to monitor AWS RDS SQL Server database instances and setup email notifications using event subscriptions and CloudWatch alarms. Database monitoring is one of the important tasks of a database administrator to ensure availability and performance.
The Morning Paper
SEPTEMBER 1, 2019
IPA: invariant-preserving applications for weakly consistent replicated databases Balegas et al., VLDB’19. IPA for developers, happy days!
SQL Performance
APRIL 26, 2019
If so, you may have heard about the Azure SQL Database DTU calculator , and you may have also read about how it has been reverse engineered by Andy Mallon. Database – Log Bytes Flushed/sec. I created a table called [AzureDatabaseDTUData] and stored it in the SentryOne database.
All Things Distributed
MAY 10, 2019
Last year, I spent some time in Jakarta visiting HARA , an AWS customer. They've created a way to connect small farms in developing nations to banks and distributers of goods, like seeds, fertilizer, and tools.
Scalegrid
JANUARY 20, 2020
Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. It is not available for our in-memory database offerings like hosting for Redis™*. Database Dev/Test Setup. By using follower clusters, you can periodically import data from your production database into the dev/test database. Follower syncing does not perform any database level operations – it merely restores the latest snapshot!
SQL Shack
JUNE 25, 2019
It is essential for the DBA to need to ensure the SQL Server database performance. Performance tuning is an open-ended task, and you need to ensure the monitoring of various database parameters.
Scalegrid
JUNE 6, 2019
June 6, 2019 – ScaleGrid , the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) leader in the SQL and NoSQL space, has announced the expansion of their fully managed MySQL Hosting services to support Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. PALO ALTO, Calif.,
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. While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments.
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans.
Scalegrid
JANUARY 3, 2020
Monitoring your MySQL database performance in real-time helps you immediately identify problems and other factors that could be causing issues now or in the future. It’s also a good way to determine which components of the database can be enhanced or optimized to increase your efficiency and performance. This is usually done through monitoring software and tools either built-in to the database management software or installed from third-party providers.
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. The first thing to consider when weighing between self-management and a MySQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution is what internal resources you have available.
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