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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? ScaleGrid provides 30% more storage on average vs. DigitalOcean for MySQL at the same affordable price. At a glance – TLDR.

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Cosmos DB as Key Object Store

DZone

Cosmos DB is a multimodal database in Azure that supports schema-less storage. Prohibiting other fields to be indexed increases performance and reduces RU to query point records. Prohibiting other fields to be indexed increases performance and reduces RU to query point records. Cosmos DB cost is measured in RU.)

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Using Diskspd to test SQL Server Storage Subsystems

SQL Shack

In this article, we will learn how to test our storage subsystems performance using Diskspd. The storage subsystem is one of the key performance factors for SQL Server because SQL Server storage engine stores database objects, tables, and indexes on the physical files.

Storage 82
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Follower Clusters – 3 Major Use Cases for Syncing SQL & NoSQL Deployments

Scalegrid

Follower clusters are a ScaleGrid feature that allows you to keep two independent database systems (of the same type) in sync. This extra cluster, known as a follower cluster, can be leveraged for multiple use cases, including for analyzing, optimizing and testing your application performance for MongoDB , MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

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.

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Restoring a Snapshot of a Sharded MongoDB Cluster to a Kubernetes-Based MongoDB Environment

Percona

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 102