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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

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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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 5th, 2018

High Scalability

Because the device in question is a high-speed unit designed to process a high volume of ballots for an entire county, hacking just one of these machines could enable anattacker to flip the Electoral College and determine the outcome of a presidential election?. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. So many more quotes.

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What Should You Know About Graph Database’s Scalability?

DZone

Having a distributed and scalable graph database system is highly sought after in many enterprise scenarios. Do Not Be Misled Designing and implementing a scalable graph database system has never been a trivial task.

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UI Design Patterns That Don't Scale

SQL Performance

I want to talk about UI design choices that lead to data access patterns that are awkward to implement using SQL Server. It’s also a good way to not overwhelm the database servers … usually. Consider this design: The data behind this example requires counting and processing the entire dataset in order to report the number of results.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

Insecure design This broad category refers to fundamental design flaws in the application caused by a failure to implement necessary security controls during the design stage. Use a safe development life cycle with secure design patterns and components. Apply threat modeling and plausibility checks.