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?

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 74

Percona

JANUARY 25, 2023

Database administrators often need to identify inactive databases and users to save resources. This can be done using various methods to determine which databases and users are frequently accessed. We can save disk space and other resources by purging inactive databases and users.

Database 95

Database C++ Servers Open Source 95

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 27, 2023

Ruchir Jha , Brian Harrington , Yingwu Zhao TL;DR Streaming alert evaluation scales much better than the traditional approach of polling time-series databases. It allows us to overcome high dimensionality/cardinality limitations of the time-series database. It opens doors to support more exciting use-cases.

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Storage Cache Metrics Database 288

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Multi-cloud involves using services from multiple cloud providers to gain flexibility and reduce vendor lock-in, while hybrid cloud combines private and public cloud resources to balance control and scalability. Challenges of Multi-Cloud Although multi-cloud has its benefits, it also presents some obstacles.

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Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

A common question that I get is why do we offer so many database products? To do this, they need to be able to use multiple databases and data models within the same application. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases. Seldom can one database fit the needs of multiple distinct use cases.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

When we merge these two concepts together and present them to the customer, we have the plan selection page (shown above). This implies that the presentation layer should be void of any business logic and should simply be responsible for rendering data that is passed to it. The database contains the plans, prices and offers.

Engineering 142

Engineering Scalability Architecture Innovation 142

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 86

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 86

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Features enabling automation and orchestration should be present to simplify operations, minimize mistakes, and expedite data integration. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform. Strongest Kubernetes growth areas are security, databases, and CI/CD technologies. Java, Go, and Node.js

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 347

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For most purposes this did not present an Issue and the HammerDB display rendered correctly up to 1920 x 1080 Full HD displays. Similarly it was necessary to use scalable fonts to ensure that the text scaled alongside the graphics. Finally it was needed to update the graphical Oracle metrics with the same scalability settings.

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Scalability Metrics Tuning C++ 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This presents a challenge for IT operations teams, specifically in identifying and addressing performance issues or planning how to prevent future issues. This spans from the end user’s experience down to the performance of underlying database queries, and from the application code down to the hardware resources it utilizes.

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Efficiency Virtualization Hardware Performance 220

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

These next-generation cloud monitoring tools present reports — including metrics, performance, and incident detection — visually via dashboards. Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. predict and prevent security breaches and outages. Website monitoring.

Cloud 227

Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 227

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

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Best Practices Hardware Tuning Scalability 85

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

In the last section, we will attempt to feed your curiosity by presenting a set of opportunities that will drive our next wave of impact for Netflix. In the next section, we will highlight some high level areas of focus in each dimension of our infrastructure.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve deeper into these categories to gain a comprehensive understanding of their significance and the challenges they present. Process Improvements (50%) The allocation for process improvements is devoted to automation and continuous improvement SREs help to ensure that systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient.

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Engineering DevOps Innovation Strategy 232

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. Once the authentication succeeds: PgBouncer checks for a cached connection, with the same username+database combination. pgBouncer Architecture | Source.

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Cache Architecture Database Servers 246

Dynatrace

JUNE 9, 2023

Data scale and silos present challenges to DevOps maturity DevOps teams often run into problems trying to drive better data-driven decisions with observability and security data. The sheer number of permutations can break traditional databases. Cloud complexity leads to data silos Most organizations are battling cloud complexity.

DevOps 189

DevOps Analytics Storage Metrics 189

Percona

OCTOBER 17, 2023

However, when you clone a replica that already has a huge dataset, you may not have enough space for two datasets: one from the source server and data present on the replica. Since you decided to clone a replica from another server, you agreed to lose your current data. Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

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Open Source Servers Database Strategy 96

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. If all the bits are “1”, the value may be present. A good understanding of how bloom filters work can only lead to improved database performance. This post will illustrate through a simple example how bloom filters work in MyRocks.

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Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 126

Percona

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

localhost The use of the characters % and _ as wildcards in database-level grants is now deprecated. TO dave will grant user dave access to all the tables in database dave_ but not dave1, davex, or davey. The requirement that the primary must be running the lowest MySQL version present in the group is still in place.

Open Source 108

Open Source Database Servers Scalability 108

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Managing vast datasets effectively is an essential requirement for modern applications, and MongoDB , a leading NoSQL database, offers robust solutions for this requirement. into manageable portions to avoid potential discrepancies related to the enormous amounts of data present. So in effect, our page size is 10. The result?

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Efficiency Strategy Speed 130

Percona

MAY 15, 2023

The main reason behind this is that MySQL is a relational database system (RDBMS), and any data that is going to be written in it must respect the RDBMS rules. In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. The POC Why this POC?

Traffic 123

Traffic Scalability Database Servers 123

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Reloaded was well-architected, providing good stability, scalability, and a reasonable level of flexibility. In addition to the scalability and the stability that the developers already enjoyed in Reloaded, Cosmos aimed to significantly increase system flexibility and feature development velocity. 264, AV1, etc.).

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Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

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). While originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL, it evolved into its own distinct database management system and is now maintained and supported by the MariaDB Foundation.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 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

Percona

OCTOBER 13, 2023

the information is presented within serialized objects within the dictionary. 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. mysql> create database test_rocksdb; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01

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Storage Database Engineering Open Source 92

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Let’s take a look at how to get the benefits you need while spending less, based on the recommendations presented by Dani Guzmán Burgos, our Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Tech Lead, on this webinar (now available on demand) hosted in November last year. Amazon RDS replicates all databases in the source DB instance.

Cloud 117

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 117

Scalegrid

JANUARY 9, 2024

As more companies move away from traditional on-premises data centers, they enter into an era where scalability, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness become possible through various services offered by different providers in the market today. This ensures the highest level of protection for data stored in these databases on the cloud.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Best Practices Government 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

As a result of persistent queues, a system benefits from improved performance, reliability, and scalability. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Because queues are persistent, they reduce the risk of errors if parts of the system go offline.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

As a result of persistent queues, a system benefits from improved performance, reliability, and scalability. For all its virtues, message queuing presents some challenges from an observability perspective. Because queues are persistent, they reduce the risk of errors if parts of the system go offline.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Percona

JULY 30, 2018

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). Such architectures bring many benefits (such as scalability and resiliency), but can also bring a lot of pain if incorrectly designed and executed.

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Architecture Database Open Source Internet 41

Percona

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

. $ pt-config-diff h=localhost /etc/my.cnf $ Things to be aware of The tool will only compare the values for parameters present in both sources. if the max_connections parameter is not present in the configuration file (MySQL was running with the default value), pt-config-diff won’t show the value in the output.

Open Source 89

Open Source Servers Scalability Database 89

Percona

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This file is present in /proc/$pid/oom_score_adj. Therefore, disabling Transparent Huge Pages for database servers is advisable to avoid this situation. It’s one of the most straightforward tasks we have, but it will give us a lot of performance for our powerful disks, which keeps our databases healthy and durable.

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Servers Best Practices Database Open Source 110