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. Why choose Percona Server for MongoDB? Why release Percona Server for MongoDB 7 now?

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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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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. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Here are a few ways you can scale down and save: Audit your systems: Auditing your system for unused servers and eliminating those servers can reduce your cloud spend.

Database 81

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High Scalability

JANUARY 11, 2022

When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) from a client it performs two parallel operations: i) persisting the action in the data store ii) publish the action in a streaming data store for a pub-sub model. When the server receives a request for an action (post, like etc.) High Level Design. Architecture.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the way we manage databases is undergoing a transformative shift. The rise of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is not just a trend but a strategic response to the growing complexities of data management. However, using a database as a service is not without its set of challenges.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. You might already use ScaleGrid hosting for Redis hosting to power your performance-sensitive applications.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Imagine a world where your PostgreSQL® database connections are seamless and secure. Key Takeaways Understanding PostgreSQL hostname is essential for successful database connections. Configure the PostgreSQL hostname by editing configuration files and restarting the server, with secure storage of connection details to enhance security.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 19, 2024

Recovering from a MongoDB rollback involves locating rollback files, using mongorestore to load data into a separate server, cleansing unneeded data, and importing the data back into the primary cluster, coupled with ongoing monitoring and maintenance of replica sets to maintain system health.

Database 130

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SQL Shack

AUGUST 17, 2020

In this article, we will discuss how to resolve I/O problems that is a very important point for the SQL Server troubleshooting. The storage subsystem is one of the significant performance factors for the databases. Generally, the […].

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Enter the New SQL Server Profiler. Legacy Profiler "Standard" trace events.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. For storage, FIO is generally used. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

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

MARCH 13, 2023

to MySQL 8, we could choose to do an in-place upgrade or set up another MySQL 8 server(s) from the existing running MySQL 5.7 server with Percona XtraBackup. In my lab, we have two test nodes: PRIMARY: mysql57 (192.168.56.111) with Percona Server 5.7 server instances are ready for an upgrade. On primary server mysql5.7,

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Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the case of InnoDB tablespaces, this information is incorporated into the tablespace itself, creating a fusion of metadata and data primarily to enhance performance. MySQL writes a.sdi file to accommodate the serialized dictionary information for storage engines that lack support for this functionality. 1 mysql mysql 2.8K

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. Performance is mission-critical to these organizations. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Default settings can help you get started quickly – but they can also cost you performance and a higher cloud bill at the end of the month. I’ll show you some MySQL settings to tune to get better performance, and cost savings, with AWS RDS. This was exactly what was happening on this server. IOPs) required by MySQL.

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Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

Storage 130

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The auto-increment feature, which generates unique values for primary key columns, is an integral part of the database’s design. this enhancement ensures that the maximum auto-increment counter value persists between server restarts, providing enhanced consistency and reliability in data management. Compared to MySQL 5.7,

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

To finish up my short series of articles on latches, this time I’m going to discuss a few other latches in SQL Server you might see occasionally but don’t merit a complete article by themselves. The question you should be asking yourself is: should this query be performing a parallel scan in the first place? The LOG_MANAGER Latch.

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SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system. GB per vCore.

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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.

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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. Find more information in the Telemetry on Percona Server for MySQL document.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

Defining Enterprise Cloud Security In today’s business landscape, the reliance on cloud services for data storage and processing has made enterprise cloud security a crucial factor. Tackling the Challenges of Cloud Security Enterprises face a unique array of challenges related to cloud security.

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High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

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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. 29 will let you set up redo log directory while performing a backup.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Among these, you can find essential elements of application and infrastructure stacks, from app gateways (like HAProxy), through app fabric (like RabbitMQ), to databases (like MongoDB) and storage systems (like NetApp, Consul, Memcached, and InfluxDB, just to name a few). Our monitoring coverage already includes ?

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?

Open Source 52

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SQL Performance

APRIL 17, 2020

Along with a large number of restrictions on what is even possible with this command, there is always the question of performance. When we ask SQL Server to change some aspect of a column's definition, it needs to check that the existing data is compatible with the new definition. Improvements in SQL Server 2016. ( SELECT.

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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? Is PostgreSQL enterprise-ready?

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Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

While the technologies have evolved and matured enough, there are still some people thinking that MySQL is only for small projects or that it can’t perform well with large tables. With disks being faster nowadays and CPU and memory resources being cheaper, we could easily say MySQL can handle TBs of data with good performance.

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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. After applying the first manifests (which are likely copied and pasted from a how-to tutorial ), a web server is up and running within minutes.

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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. Set spec.image to a specific image version.

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