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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Also, in general terms, a high availability PostgreSQL solution must cover four key areas: Infrastructure: This is the physical or virtual hardware database systems rely on to run. Can you afford the necessary hardware, software, and operational costs of maintaining a PostgreSQL HA solution? there cannot be high availability.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed.

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An Introduction to MySQL Replication: Exploring Different Types of MySQL Replication Solutions

Percona

Advantages There are many advantages of MySQL replication, but a few highlights include the enhancement of scalability by allowing read-intensive workloads to be distributed across multiple replicas, offloading a primary database server, and improving overall performance.

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