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

Percona

We are a company of open source proponents. We’re also dedicated and active participants in the global open source community. Both open source and proprietary options have advantages. With open source database software , anyone in the general public can access the source code, read it, and modify it.

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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

These items are the fruits of those ideas, the items I deemed worthy from my Google Reader feeds. Making Google’s CalDAV and CardDAV APIs available for everyone ( Google Developers Blog). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source? Hacker News). Java EE 7 is Final.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. Open Source.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. Like Kubernetes, OpenShift is an open source Kubernetes-based container platform. What is Kubernetes? What is OpenShift?

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

In fact, giants like Google and Microsoft once employed monolithic architectures almost exclusively. One large team generally maintains the source code in a centralized repository that’s visible to all engineers, who commit their code in a single build. Experienced developers see microservice design patterns as more platform-agnostic.

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Google Lighthouse Audits – How to use Chrome’s built-in speed testing tool

MachMetrics

If you’re not a developer/designer, you may not be familiar with the Chrome DevTools and the extremely powerful Google Lighthouse Audits that can be found inside. However, you have likely used the Web UI that Google uses to allow you to test websites for speed – Google PageSpeed Insights. Performance.

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2019 Open Source Database Report: Top Databases, Public Cloud vs. On-Premise, Polyglot Persistence

Scalegrid

Ready to transition from a commercial database to open source, and want to know which databases are most popular in 2019? We broke down the data by open source databases vs. commercial databases: Open Source Databases. Popular examples of open source databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.