Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? Wondering whether an on-premise vs. public cloud vs. hybrid cloud infrastructure is best for your database strategy? 2019 Top Databases Used. Commercial Databases.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. Because of this, preserving the availability and integrity of the data stored in MySQL databases requires regular backups. It’s renowned for its dependability, effectiveness, and simplicity.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

JULY 2, 2023

In this post, we cover the methods used to achieve an enterprise-grade backup strategy for the PostgreSQL cluster. The size of the database and your database environment—if it is on colo or cloud—matters. They also ensure that backup strategies adhere to industry and legal compliance requirements.

Strategy 52

Strategy Database Storage Open Source 52

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. Nearly every vendor at Kubecon and every person we spoke to had some form of a multi-cloud requirement or strategy.

Cloud 80

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 80

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

To determine whether that perception is warranted in the database software industry — and if so, how to avoid vendor lock-in pitfalls — let’s dig deeper. Vendor lock-in related to database software also conjures up perceptions of financial losses brought on by escalating licensing fees. Ask about data portability.

Open Source 90

Open Source Database Innovation Cloud 90

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

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Many organizations also find it useful to use an open source observability tool, such as OpenTelemetry.

Architecture 241

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 241

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

MySQL Clone plugin simplifies new replica provisioning but does not simplify server restore after failure unless you are ready to re-install your MySQL instance from scratch. Since you decided to clone a replica from another server, you agreed to lose your current data. After that, start the server.

Open Source 98

Open Source Servers Database Strategy 98

Percona

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our open source backup solution for all versions of MySQL, is designed to make backups a seamless procedure without disrupting the performance of your server in a production environment.

C++ 93

C++ Open Source Servers Database 93

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. Ensuring the safety of your PostgreSQL data through regular backups is an important concern for database administrators. The /etc/pgbackrest/pgbackrest.conf file contains crucial information related to our primary database server.

Database 94

Database Open Source Storage Servers 94

Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

If you have any experience working with database software, you have undoubtedly heard the term Kubernetes a lot. At its core, Kubernetes (often abbreviated as K8s) is an open source tool that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. have adopted Kubernetes.

Efficiency 103

Efficiency Cloud Healthcare Open Source 103

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages?

Database 88

Database Servers Open Source C++ 88

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Here are five steps to creating a modern data stack and AI strategy for observability, AIOps, and application security. Your key business objectives will drive your strategy and metrics. A combination of proprietary and open source technology can speed data ingestion from common and long-tail sources.

Analytics 200

Analytics Software Software Storage 200

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. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. MongoDB Replication Strategies.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

While AWS EBS snapshots were mentioned the most, the likes of persistent disk snapshots on GCP, Azure-managed disk snapshots, or local storage, as well as k8s snapshot capabilities, were also playing a crucial part in the backup strategies. Now why Technical Preview, you may ask?

Availability 76

Availability Open Source Strategy Storage 76

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. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Inspired by David’s insights, I embarked on a journey to explore logical replication from a different perspective – within the realm of on-premises server databases. Also, it is a helpful method for version upgrades since the target database can run on a different (minor or major) PostgreSQL version.

Database 77

Database Traffic C++ Servers 77

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. This can leave your database instances exposed and vulnerable.

Database 80

Database Servers Storage Strategy 80

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. In this age of digital information, robust backup and recovery strategies are the pillars on which the stability of applications stands. What is the Recovery Time Objective?

Best Practices 79

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 79

Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not everything can be addressed on the database side. Inadequate application-side pooling: Suboptimal application-side pooling can lead to opening a large number of connections, and they may remain open and unused, consuming valuable resources. App-Dev often demands unrestricted, uncontrolled access to the database.

Servers 81

Servers Database C++ Airlines 81

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance. Azure Virtual Network Gateways.

Azure 151

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 151

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

2023-05-12T08:10:39.374389Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-011013] [Server] Failed to initialize DD Storage Engine. It also shows the importance of thorough testing in complex database upgrades. /ib_logfile0 which has format (v104) and is stored outside #innodb_redo. to MySQL 8.x x until we are ready for migration to the MySQL 8.x

Open Source 66

Open Source Database Storage Engineering 66

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

Falco is an open-source, cloud-native security tool that utilizes the Linux kernel technology  eBPF , to generate fine-grained networking, security, and observability events. With a conventional database, a query that scans millions of records would take many seconds to complete and require that we structure our queries up front.

Analytics 205

Analytics AWS Strategy Infrastructure 205

Percona

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Have you ever encountered situations where you want to grant a user access to all databases except a few? Ensure that all user accounts that issue or might issue GRANT statements on the replication source server also exist on the replica and have the same set of roles as they have on the source. TO `developer`@`%` 2.

Database 87

Database Servers Open Source Systems 87

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

Database 197

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 197

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. A new record entering a database table. What is AWS Lambda? Data entering a stream.

Lambda 186

Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 186

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andreas Andreakis , Ioannis Papapanagiotou Overview Change-Data-Capture (CDC) allows capturing committed changes from a database in real-time and propagating those changes to downstream consumers [1][2]. In databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, transaction logs are the source of CDC events. Triggering repairs at any time.

Database 212

Database Traffic Transportation Open Source 212

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The biggest challenge was aligning on this strategy across the organization. For storing schema changes, we use an internal library that implements the event sourcing pattern on top of the Cassandra database. Using event sourcing allows us to implement new developer experience features such as the Schema History view.

Architecture 249

Architecture Best Practices Engineering Open Source 249

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance. Hardware considerations The first thing we have to consider here is the resources that the underlying host provides to the database.

Traffic 89

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

In this blog post, we are thrilled to share that we are open-sourcing one such tool: the Netflix Data Explorer. Dynomite is a high-speed in-memory database, providing highly available cross datacenter replication while preserving Redis-like semantics. The diagram below shows the server-side architecture.

Metrics 152

Metrics Best Practices Strategy Design 152

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

Therefore, establishing a strong backup strategy is essential to ensure data security and minimize potential disruptions. A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. Looking for a MongoDB backup solution? What is a full backup?

Storage 68

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 68

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Started years ago with a focus on cloud management, Terraform built a massive community around its open-source license–up until two weeks ago, but more on that later. A significant factor that contributed to Terraform's rise to prominence is its open-source nature. ‍Why Manage Infrastructure by Code?

Open Source 52

Open Source DevOps AWS Azure 52

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them?

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

These pages serve as a pivotal tool in our digital marketing strategy, not only providing valuable information about our services but also designed to be easily discoverable through search engines. While paid marketing strategies like Google Ads play a part in our approach as well, enhancing our organic traffic remains a major priority.

Performance 74

Performance Cache Traffic Metrics 74