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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

No single point of failure (SPOF): If the failure of a database infrastructure component could cause downtime, that component is considered an SPOF. 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.

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

All Things Distributed

This white paper provides a detailed view of the comparable costs of running various workloads on-premises and in the AWS Cloud and offers guidance on how to work out an apples-to-apples comparison of the TCO of running web applications in the AWS Cloud versus running them on-premises.Below are some highlights of the Web Applications white paper.

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

Percona

The idea is to use secondary servers on your infrastructure for either reads or other administrative solutions. Solutions like Percona XtraDB Cluster are a component to improve the availability of your database infrastructure. When a problem is detected, these tools automatically redirect traffic to a standby replica.

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MongoDB Best Practices: Security, Data Modeling, & Schema Design

Percona

This allows MongoDB to scale horizontally, handling large datasets and high traffic loads. Percona’s open source database monitoring tool monitors the health of your database infrastructure and helps you improve MongoDB performance. Replication and sharding are good options to consider when your MongoDB database becomes slow.