In a previous post on DynamoDB, I told you we were in the process of migrating to DDB and from MongoDB for our largest datastore. Now, we have moved a bit further on this and we, including myself, has pretty positive view on DDB, it really is a viable MongoDB alternative if you can live with the limitations. That said, there are many limitations, but I would like to put this differently. I would say this is an opportunity to simplify and get real good performance from your base level data, and combine…
2012-04-25 06:41:00 by Anders KarlssonA look at designing a service layer using good practices, and the MSFT technology stack.
2012-04-19 20:01:00Schema alteration is a big headache especially when it has already reached to production and things get worse when the relations are involved. Below is a short example for altering...
2012-04-23 22:08:30 by KedarAt Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There’s no 140 character limit for this meet up! Stop by the IOUG … Continue reading →
2012-04-19 08:27:43 by IOUG BlogsFor the week of April 18th, 2012: Oracle Announces It’s First Sponsored MySQL Conference A New Development Milestone Release of MySQL 5.6 is now available IOUG’s Real World Performance Tour Returns to California this Month IOUG’s Plug-In to Vegas! adds … Continue reading →
2012-04-19 10:41:42 by IOUG BlogsOver the coming three months, Percona will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL courses in the following cities: Dallas, Texas – May 14 – 17, 2012 London, England – May 21 – 24, 2012 Orlando, Florida – June 11 – 14, 2012 Raleigh, North Carolina – June 18 – 21, 2012 Boston, Massachusetts - July 9 – 12, 2012 Chicago, IL – July 9 – 12, 2012 If you have never attended Percona Training, or want to refine your skills, now is the time…
2012-04-19 09:09:17 by MySQL Performance BlogAfter 15 years of slide show technology, I thought that we need to change the way we do presentations. And since I am advocating radical changes, I will eat my own dog food and be the first to present a MySQL session using 3D technology. Since watching Avatar a few years ago, I thought that using this technology would make my presentations truly amazing. However, two years ago a 3d projector was prohibitively expensive. Now, instead, it is affordable, and fits in my briefcase!What I needed, though,…
2012-04-01 07:59:00 by Giuseppe MaxiaMariaDB-5.5.21-beta is the first MariaDB release featuring the new thread pool. Oracle offers a commercial thread pool plugin for MySQL Enterprise, but now MariaDB brings a thread pool implementation to the community! If you are not familiar with the term, please read the Knowledge Base article about it. The main design goal of the thread pool is to increase the scalability of the MariaDB server with many concurrent connections. In order to test and demonstrate this, I have run the sysbench OLTP…
2012-03-20 09:33:57 by Axel SchwenkeThis article will discuss about 11 important database designing rules.
2012-04-04 00:03:00If you are following news regarding openSUSE and MySQL, you probably already know, that we have both MySQL and MariaDB in openSUSE to allow users to choose what they want to use. And if these two options are not enough, we’ve got server:database repository with newest and greatest development versions of both and MySQL Cluster on to of that. I think all this is great and awesome, that we have all of that. Now to the not so great part. Unfortunately I’m bare human, I have to eat, sleep…
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