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

All Things Distributed

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. s a summary chart of the TCO analysis. What this chart summarizes is that. t need them.

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Setting Up and Deploying PostgreSQL for High Availability

Percona

Backup and continuous archiving: PostgreSQL asynchronous replication relies on the write-ahead log (WAL) stream, and it’s vital to have centralized storage that all nodes can access. Such a proxy acts as the traffic cop between the applications and the database servers. It can, and usually does, get a lot more complicated.

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

Percona

Since MongoDB usually works with a replica set, it is possible to increase this parameter to get better performance: # edit /etc/mongod.conf storage: journal: enabled: true commitIntervalMs: 300 WiredTiger cache For dedicated servers, it is possible to increase the WiredTiger(WT) cache. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.