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.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

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. What is PostgreSQL used for?

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Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 82

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. The following sections describe our journey in building these components.

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. Another source reported a 43% overall increase in Prometheus adoption for the last six months of 2021. What is Prometheus?

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Metrics Engineering Energy Tuning 175

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 84

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 84

Percona

MARCH 7, 2023

The goal is to simplify the provisioning and management of database capacity. One approach is to separate compute and storage to allow for independent scaling. It’s an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres that utilizes a serverless architecture. So, what is Neon?

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Serverless Storage Open Source Architecture 116

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.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. Purpose of.sdi files Serialized dictionary information (SDI) files store serialized metadata about various database objects, such as tables, indexes, and other schema-related details. sdi -rw-r --.

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Storage Database Engineering Open Source 99

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 was released.

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Open Source Azure Servers Programming 84

All Things Distributed

MAY 19, 2017

In many, high-throughput, OLTP style applications the database plays a crucial role to achieve scale, reliability, high-performance and cost efficiency. For a long time, these requirements were almost exclusively served by commercial, proprietary databases.

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Database Design Cloud Storage 117

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). It continues to be developed and maintained by the open source community and remains free to use under the GNU General Public License. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 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. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB?

Availability 105

Availability Servers Database Open Source 105

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.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

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.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Both logs are crucial in the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties of database systems. InnoDB Undo Log The undo log, also known as the rollback segment, is a crucial part of the InnoDB storage engine. In a database system, rollback segments are used to temporarily store undo data during transactions.

Database 97

Database Tuning Storage Open Source 97

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 160

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.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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, After changing the VARCHAR column size to 200, the following is the storage requirement. Try ALGORITHM=COPY.

Storage 83

Storage Database Open Source Engineering 83

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This type of backup is suitable for large, important databases that need to be recovered quickly when problems occur. Physical backups are the backups that consist of raw copies of the directories and files that store database contents. Taking backup off-peak time while the system saturation is lower.

C++ 110

C++ Servers Storage Speed 110

Percona

JANUARY 20, 2023

When planning a database deployment, one of the most challenging factors to consider is the amount of space we need to dedicate to data on disk. When using cloud storage like EBS or similar, it is normally easy(er) to extend volumes, which gives us the luxury to plan the space to allocate for data with a good grade of relaxation.

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AWS Storage Monitoring Cloud 98

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

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?

Open Source 79

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 79

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

uses the Aria engine for system tables. 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. The incompatibility roadblock MariaDB 10.4 Or you have Percona to help with that!

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Open Source Database Storage Engineering 69

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 30, 2019

and beyond By Anoop Panicker and Kishore Banala Conductor is a workflow orchestration engine developed and open-sourced by Netflix. The Netflix Media Database (NMDB) is one such example. This allows us to proactively push changes to the open source version while ensuring that the changes are fully functional and well-tested.

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Lambda Media Open Source Metrics 189

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 110

Storage Cloud Servers Google 110

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

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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Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

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.

Database 93

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 93

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction. The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied.

Cache 89

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 89

Percona

MARCH 13, 2023

First, let’s try streaming copy from mysql57 to mysql8 server as this does not need additional storage. for this database. 23) initializing of server in progress as process 6660 2023-03-01T02:38:23.939215Z 1 [System] [MY-013576] [InnoDB] InnoDB initialization has started. 25 based on MySQL server 8.0.32

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Servers C++ Storage Systems 109

Percona

JULY 13, 2023

MySQL, one of the most popular relational database management systems, recognizes this need and has introduced utf8mb4 in its 8.0 The emoji will not be stored correctly in the database because the utf8 character set cannot store emojis. version as a game-changer. backed by practical examples.

Database 94

Database Games Open Source Engineering 94

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Kubernetes (k8s) provides basic monitoring through the Kubernetes API and you can find instructions like Top 9 Open Source Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes as a “do it yourself guide”. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. Dynatrace news. Full-stack observability. End-to-end code-level tracing. Service mash insights.

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AWS Monitoring Ecommerce Lambda 127

Percona

JANUARY 4, 2024

Managing storage and performance efficiently in your MySQL database is crucial, and general tablespaces offer flexibility in achieving this. In contrast to the single system tablespace that holds system tables by default, general tablespaces are user-defined storage containers for multiple InnoDB tables.

Storage 93

Storage Engineering Database Hardware 93

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. But why is this important?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system for online applications and data warehousing. However, data loss is always possible due to hardware malfunction, software defects, or other unforeseen circumstances, just like with any computer system.

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Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Solution We built a system called Lerner that consists of a set of microservices and a python library that allows scalable agent training and inference for test case scheduling. Lerner, as a web-service, relies on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Netflix’s Open Source Software (OSS) tools. We also provide an API client in Python.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163