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. More in the following sub-section.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 104

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

DZone

JANUARY 20, 2023

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.

Scalability 201

Scalability Big Data Hardware Internet 201

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Hardware Database Scalability 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

As Kubernetes adoption increases and it continues to advance technologically, Kubernetes has emerged as the “operating system” of the cloud. Kubernetes is emerging as the “operating system” of the cloud. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Kubernetes moved to the cloud in 2022.

Open Source 346

Open Source Java Operating System Programming 346

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

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.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 286

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

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. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

Availability 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This message is normally a side effect of a storage subsystem that is not capable of keeping up with the number of writes (e.g., The innodb_io_capacity_max parameter was set to 2000, so the hardware should be able to deliver that many IOPS without major issues. The settings might not be optimal. flushed=140, during the time.)

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AWS Hardware Storage Tuning 117

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s no other competing software that can provide this level of value with minimum effort and optimal hardware utilization that can scale up to web-scale! I’d like to stress the lean approach to hardware that our customers require for running Dynatrace Managed. Optimal metric storage management strategy.

Performance 150

Performance Hardware Java Storage 150

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

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. ” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like.

Hardware 85

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work. Message queue software options to consider.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

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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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security.

Systems 47

Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 90

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 90

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. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter? What is the Recovery Time Objective?

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 78

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Understanding Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry, offering a host of advantages including cost-effectiveness, increased agility, and access to cutting-edge hardware. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

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.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 81

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As such, it encompasses distributed system coordination, failover, resource management and many other capabilities. These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. System Coordination. Scalability is one of the main drivers of the NoSQL movement.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Encrypting data at rest in a database management system (DBMS) refers to securing data by encrypting it when it is not being used or accessed. TDE can be applied at various levels, such as at the database, column, or cell level, depending on the organization’s specific security needs. Database-level encryption.

Database 93

Database Storage Servers Strategy 93

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

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. mongos --configdb <configReplSetName>/<cfg1.example.net:27019>,<cfg2.example.net:27019>,<cfg3.example.net:27019>

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

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 82

Programming Servers Database Hardware 82

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. Creating repositories for memory-safe patterns in cloud systems to improve overall security.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111