An Introduction to Columnar Databases
By Charles Mahler Choosing the right database for your application can be tough. The debate between SQL and NoSQL databases is ongoing, with questions around whether to store data in a relational database or...
Category: Databases – Blog Posts
On Automating InfluxDB Deployments at the Edge with balena: Q&A with Marc Pous and Jay Clifford
Q1. What is the business of balena.io? Marc: At balena we help our customers deploy and manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices across the globe. The mission of balena is to unlock the promise...
On the Technology Requirements for a Database to Support Minecraft. Q&A with Charlie Joseph
” I chose SingleStore’s self-managed solution for Analyse, as it was more cost-effective for a bootstrapped startup. At the beginning, when every dollar counts, opting for a cloud solution wasn’t financially sensible.” Q1. Please tell...
On Vector Databases. Q&A with Charles Xie.
” Building a vector database at scale is a complex and challenging task. Data volume is one of the most critical factors since the fundamental user requirement is to query at least a billion...
On the Open Source Database market. Q&A with Peter Zaitsev
Q1. How is the current status of the Open Source Databases market? There is a lot of innovation going on in the database market and a lot of those innovations spill to Open Source...
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: Cross-Region Read Replicas for Disaster Recovery. Q&A with Kambiz Aghili.
“With cross-Region read replicas, customers can horizontally scale their workloads across different AWS regions to meet their growing compliance, durability, and performance objectives.” Q1: What new feature was released and why is this feature important?...
Announcing Couchbase Capella™
The introduction Couchbase Capella just made application development a whole lot faster, easier, and more affordable. Start your Free Trial Capella is our easy-as-SQL hosted Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that provides flexibility and performance at...
Amazon Aurora vs. MariaDB SkySQL
Which AWS-hosted DBaaS is best for you? Are you an AWS customer looking for a MariaDB/MySQL database? Until recently, that meant choosing between Amazon’s RDS and Aurora, with Aurora being the better option when...
Distributed Database Concepts- Series of Blog Posts by Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris and Dr. Patrick Valduriez
What do I need to know about a distributed database? In these posts, Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris and Dr. Patrick Valduriez give a deeper insight into technical concepts such as scalability, ACID properties, load balancing, or data partitioning. In...
MariaDB vs. MySQL: Guide to Open Source Database Selection
A side-by-side feature comparison of MariaDB Platform X5 vs. MySQL Enterprise Edition 8.0 MariaDB and MySQL, two of the most popular open source relational databases, started from the same place. MariaDB was created as...