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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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What is software composition analysis? How SCA helps reduce risks associated with open source software

Dynatrace

The growing popularity of open source software presents new risks associated with vulnerable libraries. To handle the increasing complexity of open source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has become an important tool. SCA scans software dependencies for security vulnerabilities with speed and reliability.

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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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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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The Future of Open Source is Polarized

Percona

Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License ( BSL ). Commercial open source is going to continue being less open source.

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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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Open Source at AWS re:Invent

Adrian Cockcroft

We’re excited to let you know that we have an Open Source track at re:Invent this year! Brendan Gregg tours BPF tracing, with open source tools & examples for EC2 instance analysis. Learn about what’s in it: [link] Some selected sessions: OPN201 Change is coming to robotics development: The shift to ROS 2 ??