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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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Database Housekeeping in the New Year

Percona

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. Have you been looking at the recent features and changes in your database software? Welcome to 2023! First, how are your backups?

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Bloom Filters: Efficient Data Filtering With Practical Applications

DZone

Bloom, these data structures have found applications in various fields such as databases, caching, networking, and more. To verify if an element is present in the filter, the element is hashed again using the same k hash functions, and if all the corresponding positions are set to 1, the element is considered present.

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Backup and Recovery for Databases: What You Should Know

Percona

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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How To Measure the Network Impact on PostgreSQL Performance

Percona

It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server. We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But let’s see what the wait events look like if the network slows down.

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Trace, diagnose, resolve: Introducing the Infrastructure & Operations app for streamlined troubleshooting

Dynatrace

Any problem, such as a simple software update overburdening a critical database, can cause a ripple effect that degrades the performance of dependent services or applications. For example, an unnoticed database strain could slow down the response time of a web frontend, resulting in poor user experience.

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Mastering MongoDB® Timeout Settings

Scalegrid

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. MongoDB drivers provide several options for Mongo clients to handle different network timeout errors that may occur during usage.

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