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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Database Software: What To Choose?

Percona

Let’s start with a simple introductory comparison: With proprietary (closed source) database software, the public does not have access to the source code; only the company that owns it and those given access can modify it. Those most involved with open source software know the reality about security.

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Performance Implications of Running Databases in Kubernetes

Percona

Cloud-native databases are becoming the norm, and containerized databases are a common trend (see the report from Dynatrace and Figure 1). Kubernetes—the de facto standard for platform engineers—and operators simplify database deployment and management.

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Is ANALYZE TABLE Safe on a Busy MySQL Database Server?

Percona

MySQL Server – Community Edition The problem applies to all versions of the upstream MySQL Community up to 8.0.23. Here is an example scenario you may end up here: mysql > select @@version,@@version_comment; + --+ + | @@version | @@version_comment | + --+ + | 5.7.43 | MySQL Community Server (GPL) | + --+ + 1 row in set (0.00

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2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use

Scalegrid

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database management tasks. Guess again.

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Database Server Lifecycle for MySQL and MariaDB

Percona

In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where we are now and relevant historical background. The MariaDB 11 series did not yet have any long-term supported (LTS) releases, which are the releases most would consider for running mission-critical databases in production.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”