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Database

Engineering

As a developer, DevOps engineer or a database administrator, you have to typically deal with database lock issues. Often, rows locked by queries cause lags and can slow down applications resulting in poor user experience. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of lock insights and transaction insights for Cloud Spanner that provide a …

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ComputingDataProgramming

Take a look at a data sharding scenario in which DistSQL’s flexibility allows you to create a distributed database. Distributed databases are common for many reasons. They increase reliability, redundancy, and performance. Apache ShardingSphere is an open source framework that enables you to transform any database into a distributed database. Since the release of ShardingSphere …

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DataPublic Cloud

In a data-driven, global, always-on world, databases are the engines that let businesses innovate and transform. As databases get more sophisticated and more organizations look for managed database services to handle infrastructure needs, there are a few key trends we’re seeing. Here’s what to watch.   Source Google Cloud Blog

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Big DataEngineeringPlatforms

SQL is great, but sometimes you may need something else. By and large, the prevalent type of data that data engineers deal with on a regular basis is relational. Tables in a data warehouse, transactional data in Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) databases — they can all be queried and accessed using SQL. But does it mean that …

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Platforms

Enterprises expect extreme reliability of the database infrastructure that’s accessed by their applications. Despite your best intentions and careful engineering, database errors happen, whether that’s machine crashes or network partitioning. Good planning can help you stay ahead of problems and recover more quickly when issues do occur. This blog shows one approach of deploying a database architecture …

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DataPlatforms

InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, announced the availability of InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud. The strategic collaboration, originally announced in April 2019, is part of a major Google Cloud initiative to make the most powerful open source technologies more accessible to its customer base. InfluxDB Cloud on Google Cloud delivers the leading …

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Platforms

Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has offered PolarDB to PrestoMall, a leading e-commerce platform in Malaysia as a catalyst for growth. With this next-generation relational database technology PrestoMall will scale and manage its operations more effectively. PrestoMall, previously known as 11street Malaysia, is the largest homegrown online marketplace in the country …

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DataPlatforms

Microsoft Build 2019 | Develop data application on a no-limits SQL data platform Session ID: BRK4003   Come learn how to integrate, deploy and modernize your data platform to Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Hyperscale offers a data tier that has infinite scale, optimized for highly transactional workloads and offers seamless integration with all the game …

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DataProgramming

Overview This guide contains instructions on how to install and do basic configuration of a Neo4J database.   Prerequisites Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04 Access to a Terminal or Shell Console   Installation 01: Open a terminal window   02: Update the package repository list   03: Install Java. We will be using OpenJDK 8. Other …

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DataProgramming

Overview This guide contains instructions on how to install and do basic configuration of a PostgreSQL  database.   Prerequisites Operating System : Ubuntu 18.04 Access to a Terminal or Shell Console   Install 01: Open a terminal window   02: Update the package repository list   03: Install PostgreSQL via APT package manager. Enter y …

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