Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

For more than a quarter of a century, people have been discussing “Which is better, MySQL or PostgreSQL?” — with no resolution. When people ask me which is better, I have to ask them what they want to do and how they want to do it. I’ll explain using a bad analogy: What type of car is best? This depends on your needs. If you want to go fast, a top fuel dragster will set you back close to a million dollars by the time you buy the chassis, spare engines, tooling, and transp

Database 122

Database Transportation Servers Cloud 122

InfoQ

JUNE 23, 2023

Frank Yu discusses how to decrease bandwidth usage and buffering across the system, protect against thundering herd problems, and simplify the logic of gateway and persistence services.

Systems 52

Systems Design Scalability Architecture 52

Percona

JUNE 23, 2023

In Percona Managed Services , one key aspect of managing the databases is configuring backups. Percona XtraBackup is one of the best tools for performing physical database backups. It is a good practice to compress the backups to save costs on storage and to encrypt the backups so those can’t be used if the files are compromised as long as you keep your encryption keys safe!

Servers 83

Servers Processing Speed Open Source 83