Percona

AUGUST 2, 2023

Restoring a MySQL database backup is a crucial task that can sometimes be time-consuming, especially for large databases. Linux native Input/Output (I/O) statistics Pipe viewer utility By following these approaches, we can effectively monitor the restoration process and manage your MySQL database restoration efficiently.

Database 80

Database Monitoring C++ Speed 80

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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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 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

Efficiency 147

Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Speed is next; serverless solutions are quick to spin up or down as needed, and there are no delays due to limited storage or resource access. AWS offers four serverless offerings for storage.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 8, 2024

With MySQL point-in-time recovery , you can restore your database to the moment before the problem occurs. Preparation for PITR is crucial and involves enabling binary logging and creating a full database backup. It is important to begin with a thorough database backup to prepare for such situations.

Database 162

Database Strategy Servers Best Practices 162

Percona

APRIL 14, 2023

Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Consider alternative tools, systems, and services: Many cloud providers offer long-term storage, serverless options, or component options for specific needs, with vastly different pricing models.

Database 79

Database Serverless Tuning Cloud 79

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

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Percona Community

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Tech that makes our databases perform better. In this blog post we’re going to see those technologies at work to give us awesome block storage performance with flexibility and simple operations. Mayastor + SPDK + NVMe = fast databases Mayastor is new tech, it’s fast, and it’s based on SPDK. At MayaData we like new tech.

Storage 52

Storage Latency Speed Database 52

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. In order to speed up the benchmark indexes must be added.

Database 102

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

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. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. What is workload in cloud computing?

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. Databases, however, require indexing — a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval — before log data can be searched and analyzed. Cold storage and rehydration. Indexing overhead. Inadequate context.

Analytics 220

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 220

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

They can call on dozens of databases and deliver gigabytes of data across myriad devices. In most data storage models, indexing engines enable faster access to query logs. But indexing requires schema management and additional storage to be effective, which adds cost and overhead. The Dynatrace difference, powered by Grail.

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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. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. HyperScale Database. DTU Pricing Tier.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Dynatrace

JULY 29, 2022

Traditional databases help users and machines find data with a quick search. Databases, however, require indexing — a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval — before log data can be searched and analyzed. Cold storage and rehydration. Indexing overhead. Inadequate context.

Analytics 186

Analytics Storage Retail Monitoring 186

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. Also, thinking about write process speed & storage capacity must always come first before creating indexes as well. The result?

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Efficiency Strategy Speed 130

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs. IT pros want a data and analytics solution that doesn’t require tradeoffs between speed, scale, and cost. User experience data.

Analytics 196

Analytics Software Software Storage 196

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 105

Storage Network Open Source Latency 105

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability.

Performance 123

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 123

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As teams try to gain insight into this data deluge, they have to balance the need for speed, data fidelity, and scale with capacity constraints and cost. Grail combines the big-data storage of a data warehouse with the analytical flexibility of a data lake. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In

Analytics 191

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 191

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them. This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems. The total database size grows to a multiple of the actual data.

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Tuning Cache Storage Database 123

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

New databases used to be announced seemingly every week. While database neogenesis has slowed down considerably, it has not gone necrotic. Each storage server collects statistics about the requests it serves, the data it stores, etc. Our monitoring engine automatically moves data between tiers based on access patterns.

Storage 199

Storage Performance AWS Efficiency 199

Dynatrace

AUGUST 9, 2023

As a result, not only can you understand, for example, that someone accessed a database, but also from where they came, exactly what they accessed, and to where they exported the data–to the level that we know the exact database query statement. This modern approach puts security analysts in the driver’s seat.

Analytics 223

Analytics Metrics Database Storage 223

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

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Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

High storage costs. To make searches more manageable, teams rely on database indexing. To analyze long-term trends using traditional methods, teams must rehydrate data that resides in “cold data storage” (older data that is no longer accessible for daily operations). Search constraints.

Analytics 194

Analytics Strategy Storage Technology 194

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. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and efficiency. First, it prepares the database and ensures the data files can be safely copied. Then, it copies files to the storage.

Storage 81

Storage Database Strategy Speed 81

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

It provides significant advantages that include: Offering scalability to support business expansion Speeding up the execution of business plans Stimulating innovation throughout the company Boosting organizational flexibility, enabling quick adaptation to changing market conditions and competitive pressures.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

A single command to deploy the operator would be: kubectl apply -f [link] --server-side Init SQL script Init SQL allows the creation of the database cluster with some initial data in it. In this case, the backups should be stored on some object storage. You can find all examples from this blog post in this GitHub repository.

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Storage Database Media Open Source 91

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

When exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can gain remote code injection capabilities in the MOVEit server and modify or steal sensitive data from its database. Spans reveal more about MOVEit vulnerability exploit activity Using spans, for example, we can find evidence of MOVEit vulnerability exploit activity in database queries.

Database 163

Database Government Games Servers 163

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Queued messages are typically small and specific.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

In a distributed processing environment, message queuing is similar, although the speed and volume of messages are much greater. Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. Queued messages are typically small and specific.

Monitoring 204

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Percona

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Functional indexes are found in both of Percona’s relational databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, but they are probably the least used and most understood index type, aside from geospatial. Thus, indexes on expressions are useful when retrieval speed is more important than insertion and update speed.

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