Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

The RAG process begins by summarizing and converting user prompts into queries that are sent to a search platform that uses semantic similarities to find relevant data in vector databases, semantic caches, or other online data sources. Observing AI models Running AI models at scale can be resource-intensive.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

Data powers everything, and unlike coal and coal combustion, data and databases aren’t going away. In this blog, we’ll focus on the elements of database backup and disaster recovery, and we’ll introduce proven solutions for maintaining business continuity, even amid otherwise dire circumstances.

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Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Compute services.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 285

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

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Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. As the amount of data grows, the need for efficient data compression becomes increasingly important to save storage space, reduce I/O overhead, and improve query performance. provides higher compression rates.

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Storage Network Open Source Latency 107

Percona

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We discussed how roles can inherit permissions from other roles, simplifying access control in your database. Documentation: Document your role hierarchy in reverse for reference, compliance, and auditing purposes. But what if you need to discover which roles inherit from a specific role?

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C++ Open Source Tuning Database 98

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Find more information in the Telemetry on Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL document.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Document databases advance the BigTable model offering two significant improvements.

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Percona

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you ever had to make a quick ad-hoc backup of your MongoDB databases, but there was not enough disk space on the local disk to do so, this blog post may provide some handy tips to save you from headaches. while not overloading the CPU capacity on the production database. 0 document(s) failed to restore.

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Percona

JULY 5, 2023

Fragmentation is a common concern in some database systems. In databases, we can experiment with different types of fragmentation: Segment Fragmentation : segments are fragmented; they are stored not following the order of data, or there are empty pages gaps between the data pages. What is fragmentation?

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As a result, it becomes increasingly important to protect the confidentiality of information to prevent data leaks and facilitate easy access to relevant data sources and tools for the related teams without having to sift through unrelated databases or environmental data. to monitor and diagnose. +50

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Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

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Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

JSON is the most common format used by web services to exchange data, store documents, unstructured data, etc. Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? Note: If a particular key is always present in your document, it might make sense to store it as a first class column. JSON database in 9.2

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

A single command to deploy the operator would be: kubectl apply -f [link] --server-side Init SQL script Init SQL allows the creation of the database cluster with some initial data in it. You can change this; please see users documentation. Please use our documentation to configure backups.

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Storage Database Media Open Source 93

Percona

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

As MySQL database administrators, we are well aware of the significance of implementing a primary key within a table. Primary keys play an indispensable role in sound database design by uniquely identifying individual rows and significantly enhancing data retrieval, manipulation, and overall system performance.

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Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Containers are portable, self-contained operating environments that include applications and the dependencies they need to run, such as databases, middleware, and frameworks. While there are multiple ways to define cloud-native architecture, a consensus has formed around the following characteristics: Designed for automation.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not everything can be addressed on the database side. Human factor: In an ideal case, there must be stringent restrictions and enforcement on what load and number of connections can be onboarded to the Database. App-Dev often demands unrestricted, uncontrolled access to the database. However, gatekeeping is not an easy job.

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Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment. Similarly, Percona XtraBackup 8.0

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Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

When designing an architecture, many components need to be considered before deciding on the best solution. In this scenario, it is also crucial to be efficient in resource utilization and scaling with frugality. In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. Most recently, in StackOverflow’s 2022 Stack Developer Survey , PostgreSQL took a slight lead over MySQL (46.48% to 45.68%) as the most popular database platform among professional developers. How-to documentation is readily available.

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Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. Additionally, MySQL 8.0

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL.

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Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. Having a backup strategy in place that takes regular backups and has secure storage is essential to protect the database in an enterprise-grade environment to ensure its availability in the event of failures or disasters.

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Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

One very common problem when trying to optimize a database environment is index usage. Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. As such, index design must strike a balance between improved query speed and efficient data modification.

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Percona

JUNE 7, 2023

Triggers on Data Definition Language (DDL) events are a powerful feature of PostgreSQL that allows you to perform additional actions in response to changes to the database schema. DDL events include operations such as CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements on tables, indexes, and other database objects.

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Percona

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the past, we blogged about the inefficiency in that design and how some of the backup tools like PgBackRest solve that problem. It is also unfortunate that PostgreSQL documentation gives an unsafe command string, employing a combination of the test and cp commands as an example: archive_command = 'test ! -f

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

SUS101: Sustainability innovation in AWS Global Infrastructure AWS is determined to make the cloud the cleanest and most energy-efficient way to run customers’ infrastructure and business. This includes providing the efficient, resilient services AWS customers expect, while minimizing their environmental footprint. AWS speaker: T.

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HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

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Percona

AUGUST 24, 2023

Please remember this is not official documentation but a cookbook about easier PMM management. You can find more details on this approach in our documentation. Watchtower is designed to monitor your Docker container and update it automatically whenever a new image becomes available. This method may not work in later versions.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Percona Operators allow users to easily manage complex database systems in a Kubernetes environment. With Percona Operators , users can easily deploy, monitor, and manage databases orchestrated by Kubernetes, making it easier and more efficient to run databases at scale. component=pxc,app.kubernetes.io/instance=cluster1,app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=percona-xtradb-cluster-operator,app.kubernetes.io/name=percona-xtradb-cluster,app.kubernetes.io/part-of=percona-xtradb-cl

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. This level of distribution will seriously affect the efficiency of the operation, which will increase the response time significantly. This is it.

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Percona

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Database page content is not written to the buffer. The GRANT OPTION privilege was treated as related to database operations.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 1, 2022

I’ll be using the sample database TSQLV6 in the examples in this article. You can download this sample database here. SQL Server 2022 introduces a standard feature called the distinct predicate, which is designed to apply comparisons using two-valued logic, treating NULLs like non-NULL values. The Distinct Predicate.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. In a common WebSocket architecture, the Front-end application will connect to a WebSocket API, an event bus, or a database. More after jump! Jump to online workshops ?.

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Cache Performance Servers Social Media 127

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Documents like requirements documents, design documents, code are reviewed and review comments are provided at early stages of Software Lifecycle. The internal structure and design of the code are known to the user; hence all the logical paths are tested under White Box testing. White Box Testing.

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