high availablilty
Presto is a free, open source SQL query engine. We’ve been using it at Meta for the past ten years, and learned a lot while doing so. Running anything at scale - tools, processes, services - takes problem solving to overcome unexpected challenges. Here are four things we learned
Oracle
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of
Java
Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our fully managed Redis hosting plans. In
database replication
Many of you may have already heard about the high performance of the Tarantool DBMS, about its rich toolset and certain features. Say, it has a really cool on-disk storage engine called Vinyl, and it knows how to work with JSON documents. However, most articles out there tend to overlook
Database
“You just can't have it all” is a phrase that most of us are accustomed to hearing and that many still believe to be true when discussing the speed, scale and cost of processing data. To reach high speed data processing, it is necessary to utilize more memory
Java
We have written agents deployed/distributed across the network. Agents sends data every 15 Secs may be even 5 secs. Working on a service/system to which all agent can post data/tuples with marginal payload. Upto 5% drop rate is acceptable. Ultimately the data will be segregated and stored
Horizontal Scaling
This is a repost of the blog entry written by NuoDB's Tommy Reilly. We at NuoDB were recently given the opportunity to kick the tires on the Google Compute Engine by our friends over at Google. You can watch the entire Google Developer Live Session by clicking here.
Grid
The first meeting of this Online Gaming High Scalability SIG will be on the 9th of July 2009 in central London, starting at 10 AM and finishing around 5PM. The main topic of this meeting will be potentials for using cloud and grid technologies in online gaming systems. In addition
General Discussion
(Please bare with me, I'm a new, passionate, confident and terrified programmer :D ) Background: I'm pre-launch and 1 year into the development of my application. My target is to be able to eventually handle millions of registered users with 5-10% of them concurrent. Up to this
Scalability
For those interested in building scalable systems, today I will speak about the Facebook Char architecture. Starting keynote: ''When your feature’s userbase will go from 0 to 70 million practically overnight, scalability has to be baked in from the start.'' Eugene Lutuchy, lead engineer on
Scalability
Art of scalability - series in my blog about Scalability principles, and guild lines. To read the whole series: Art of scalability (1) - Scalability principles Art of scalability (2) - Scalability guidelines part 1 Art of scalability (3) - Scalability guidelines part 2 Art of scalability (4) - Scalability
Cluster File System
DataDirect Networks (www.ddn.com) is searching for beta testers for our exciting new object-based clustered storage system. Does this sound like you? * Need to store millions to hundreds of billions of files * Want to use one big file system but can't because no single file system scales