Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Databases on Kubernetes continue their rising trend. Our Operators provide built-in backup and restore capabilities, but some users are still looking for old-fashioned ways, like storage-level snapshots (i.e., Both your storage and Container Storage Interface (CSI) must support snapshots. AWS EBS Snapshots).

Database 66

Database Storage Open Source AWS 66

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. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

Database 166

Database Cloud Website Azure 166

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

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

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.”

Availability 105

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

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.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key Takeaways Rollbacks in MongoDB are triggered by disruptions in the replication process due to primary node crashes, network partitions, or other failures, which can lead to substantial data loss and inconsistencies. To traditional relational databases, where rollbacks are less likely to cause data loss, MongoDB differs significantly.

Database 130

Database Network Servers Monitoring 130

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Logs highlight observability challenges Ingesting, storing, and processing the unprecedented explosion of data from sources such as software as a service, multicloud environments, containers, and serverless architectures can be overwhelming for today’s organizations. Grail enables 100% precision insights into all stored data.

Analytics 177

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Efficiency 177

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Of the organizations in the Kubernetes survey, 71% run databases and caches in Kubernetes, representing a +48% year-over-year increase. Java, Go, and Node.js

Open Source 333

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 333

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Dynatrace

AUGUST 27, 2020

The latest batch of services cover databases, networks, machine learning and computing. Amazon Database Migration Service. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB). AWS Storage Gateway. Ensure high application performance by easily troubleshooting Amazon Neptune graph database. Available Now. Coming Soon. AWS AppSync.

AWS 262

AWS Cloud IoT Database 262

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Usage reduction is a continuous process. 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. An SSD volume can be any of the following types: io1 io2 io2 Block Express gp2 gp3 Which one is a better choice for storage?

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security.

Database 130

Database Servers Storage Network 130

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. In this case, the backups should be stored on some object storage.

Storage 91

Storage Database Media Open Source 91

Percona

MAY 29, 2023

pgBackrest on the Main site streams backups and Write Ahead Logs (WALs) to the object storage. Configure main site Use your favorite method to deploy the Operator from our documentation. Once installed, configure the Custom Resource manifest so that pgBackrest starts using the Object Storage of your choice.

Storage 119

Storage Cloud Network Traffic 119

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). documentation. Prometheus Data Source documentation.

Technology 206

Technology Technology Metrics Infrastructure 206

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Databases are different from a lot of software. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. introduces is the limitation of the downgrade process. Documentation does not limit that option.

Availability 96

Availability Servers Database Open Source 96

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

Log Monitoring documentation. Starting with Dynatrace version 1.239, we have restructured and enhanced our Log Monitoring documentation to better focus on concepts and information that you, the user, look for and need. Legacy Log Monitoring v1 Documentation. This will happen with Dynatrace version 1.242 or later. Log Monitoring.

Azure 205

Azure Metrics AWS Monitoring 205

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.

Database 79

Database Servers Storage Strategy 79

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices. Get started today with Percona Backup for MongoDB. What is a full backup?

Storage 66

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 66

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. What is the Recovery Time Objective?

Best Practices 77

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 77

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Dynamic WiredTiger tickets As a brief recap, WiredTiger tickets in MongoDB serve as the concurrency control mechanism within the WiredTiger storage engine. That’s very welcome after upgrade/downgrade processes when metadata is touched after FCV change. Bounce the database, replacing the binaries with the older release.

Metrics 98

Metrics C++ Storage Database 98

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.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

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.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

Percona

AUGUST 1, 2023

In the world of database management, ALTER TABLE operations are a crucial part of modifying database structures. MySQL, a popular database management system, offers online operations since version 5.6, We get the answer from the documentation itself, and it has to do with how VARCHAR stores the data, actually prefix and data.

Storage 79

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 79

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.

Open Source 77

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 77

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why not just create another database on the same instance? We split databases by function/team to give each team full autonomy over their schema, And if someone screws up, it breaks their cluster, not all databases. So you put multiple MySQL servers on a single machine instead of multiple databases inside one MySQL instance.

Programming 84

Programming Servers Database Hardware 84

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The platform automatically manages all the computing resources required in those processes, freeing up DevOps teams to focus on developing and delivering features and functions. These functions can connect with supported cloud databases, such as Cloud SQL and Bigtable. GCF also has relevance in IoT and file processing tasks.

Google 211

Google Cloud Serverless Azure 211

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.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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 25.84 - Total 21.04 25.84 - Total 21.04

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

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?

Open Source 123

Open Source Database Efficiency Testing 123

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Many MongoDB clusters use storage-level snapshots to provide fast and reliable backups. Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform.

Storage 102

Storage Cloud Servers Google 102

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2023

MySQL index is a data structure used to optimize the performance of database queries at the expense of additional writes and storage space to keep the index data structure up to date. Unused indexes are indexes that are created in a database but are not being used in any queries. Since MySQL 8.0,

Storage 85

Storage Database Engineering Testing 85

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This article isn’t about the act of lock escalation itself, which is already well documented and generally well understood. Much of the documentation is incorrect or at least imprecise about this and I’ve been unable to find a correct description in other writings. Let’s look at some examples using a fresh database. Explanation.

Database 98

Database Storage Testing Servers 98

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the database world there are essentially two types of database operations: Online Transaction Processing , OLTP : Online transaction processing applications have high throughput and are insert- or update-intensive in database management. CAVEAT: You cannot perform UPDATE, DELETE operations on a columnar table.

Database 91

Database Analytics Storage Processing 91

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. You can refer to the documentation for further details. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85