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Database monitoring comes in a variety of formats, ranging from high-level reporting of system health to assessing granular operations that could impact application performance. Monitoring Options […]

While the replication solutions presented can address horizontal scaling for high volumes of traffic, they do not address the needs of applications that store very large […]

Horizontal scaling can address high-traffic growth and solve availability issues. It addresses these issues by adding additional servers to your infrastructure Together the servers form a […]

Single Server Deployment and Vertical Scaling Provisioning a LAMP stack on a single node can be done in two steps Deploy a Linux server, then install […]

Reference Architecture Examples The typical real-world use case for a database is to store and handle structured information as partof an application’s software stack. The foundation […]

Designing Database Architecture Many websites and web applications can be operated with a single-server configuration, where your database exists on the same server as all of […]

Cassandra is an open source columnar database that supports very large amounts of structured data Cassandra does not declare a primary server; instead, data is distributed […]

Redis (short for “REmote DIctionary Server”) is an open source in-memory database that is useful for applications that require rapid data updates in real time Redis […]

MongoDB is a document database that stores data as JSON documents to provide more flexibility for scaling and querying data based as an application evolves MongoDB […]

PostgreSQL, also known as Postgres, is considered to be the most advanced open source database and a more robust SQL database alternative to MySQL Postgres is […]

Here’s a quick overview of five top databases that serve a range of use cases. This list includes both SQL and NoSQL options. MySQL is one […]

Evaluating the Strengths and Limitations of Database Operations Databases are anything but “one size fits all.” From privacy and compliance to supporting specific data types, databases […]