Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice. In this blog post, we saw how Kubernetes and Operators can simplify your DR design.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host. The Kubernetes experience.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. with MySQL 8, and provide practical examples to demonstrate the differences. With the release of MySQL 8, a notable enhancement was introduced to the auto-increment counter. Compared to MySQL 5.7,

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments. Without having to worry about underlying infrastructure concerns, such as storage, security, and lifecycle management, developers can focus on writing code.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Managing Cold Storage with Amazon Glacier. With the introduction of Amazon Glacier , IT organizations now have a solution that removes the headaches of digital archiving and provides extremely low cost storage. Amazon Glacier integrates seamlessly with other AWS services such as Amazon S3 and the different AWS Database services.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

a Netflix member via Twitter This is an example of a question our on-call engineers need to answer to help resolve a member issue?—?which Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. A second job taps the data feed from the first job, does tail sampling of data and writes traces to the storage system.

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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. Example (using the employee sample DB ): Suppose we have the following schema: db1 employees> show create table employeesG 1.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The list of AWS certifications below shows there are two main AWS certification types: Core and Specialty, six classified as Core AWS Certifications, and five designated as Specialty AWS Certifications. As of June 2021, Amazon currently offers 11 certifications. Core AWS certifications.

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Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction. They are then applied (for example, writing old values back again) to the pages again and written to disk. CREATE TABLE test.t1(a

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Previous posts have discussed partitioning, for example, a partitioned memory object [link] and how a latch maintains the desired access (exclusive, shared, …) [link]. The lock manager (LockMgr) is designed to track partitioned and non-partitioned locks. Quick Refresher Over Partitioned Protection/Locking.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Jamstack files usually use Markdown before being compiled to HTML, for example: author: Agustinus Theodorus title: ‘Title’ description: Description. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. What is an MPP Database?

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Particular Software

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Invariably, the sagas that were at fault were examples of the scatter-gather pattern, and the ultimate culprit was contention at the storage level due to the optimistic concurrency strategy that was being used. For a simplified example, let’s say you’re running an email campaign. In the example of two messages, this is trivial.

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Testsigma

MAY 7, 2020

All data management tasks included moving data from back-end systems to identifying test data, data masking of sensitive data, skipped production defects due to unavailability of correct test data, manipulation of data for different scenarios, storage of test data.”. The actual production databases are copied or cloned in this approach.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. It is simple and elegant, as you would expect from someone who has won several design awards. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. or rss feed.

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Particular Software

JUNE 20, 2022

2 To learn more about building multi-tenant systems with NServiceBus and Cosmos DB and how to design your data partitioning strategy to fit your requirements, check out our recent webinar: Watch Building multi-tenant systems using NServiceBus and Cosmos DB now ?? No more tinkering with the internals of NServiceBus.

Azure 52

Azure Storage Strategy Tuning 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. It is important to begin with a thorough database backup to prepare for such situations.

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ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

For example, consider a database system that is distributed across a data center, or even across data centers. On the other hand, one can implement this system with encryption/decryption units between the compute and the storage. These two, yet again, are each useful in different circumstances.

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Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? If you store each of the keys as columns, it will result in frequent DML operations – this can be difficult when your data set is large - for example, event tracking, analytics, tags, etc. For example, Stripe transactions. JSON database in 9.2

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

For example HammerDB has not used tpmC terminology to report TPC-C based metrics instead using TPM and NOPM nomenclature. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software.

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Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this session, learn how AWS has been supporting customers like the Territorial Intelligence Centre (CIT) in designing cutting-edge tools to address traceability in supply chains with deforestation risks by integrating governmental databases, innovative map services, and land-use data from high spatial resolution satellite imagery.

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AWS Energy IoT Best Practices 52

Percona

JANUARY 30, 2023

As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. If database files are copied or otherwise exposed in their raw form, exposure does not happen. Does PostgreSQL Need TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?

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Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. Fault-tolerance.

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SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Announcement and Syntax Example: [link]. . There are two ways to take advantage of non-volatile storage (NVDIMM) for SQL Server (Direct access or Block Device storage.). Block storage is what you think of today as disk access. Create / Alter Database … LOG ON. What does it mean to go faster? Tail Of Log Caching.

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Cache Servers Media Storage 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Ken Harker.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 9, 2020

Given that most large-scale organizations use at least three main tools in their software delivery toolchains (for development, testing and support), the cost of data extraction and storage begins to stack up and fast. Furthermore, many SaaS vendors purge data periodically to save on storage, limiting your access to historical data.

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Software Software Metrics Database 59

Percona

AUGUST 2, 2023

Restoring a MySQL database backup is a crucial task that can sometimes be time-consuming, especially for large databases. Linux native Input/Output (I/O) statistics Pipe viewer utility By following these approaches, we can effectively monitor the restoration process and manage your MySQL database restoration efficiently.

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Database Monitoring C++ Speed 84

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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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For example, a contract that sends a reward amount of tokens to a user based on that user’s average balance per day over some period. For example, suppose the read set is and the write set is. Here’s an example that marks an address as blacklisted if one of its last 5 transactions is with a blacklisted address.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Depending on the type of change and the configuration of the database, an ALTER COLUMN command will need to perform one of the following actions: Change metadata in system tables only. For example, a value of 255 can fit in one byte for tinyint , but requires two bytes in any of the signed formats. Integer Example. Test2 ; GO.

Servers 63

Servers Database Testing Efficiency 63

VoltDB

JULY 10, 2018

Real-World Example Problem. But that fully self sufficient nature means that each of these services have their own end-to-end full stack of technology, including database. If the data is common between multiple services, the database layer gets extricated out of microservices in favor of the creation of a common shared data layer.

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Architecture Scalability Ecommerce Latency 40