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Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy. Transportation studies put the annual cost of congestion at $160 billion , which includes 7 billion hours of time lost to sitting in traffic and an extra 3 billion gallons of fuel burned. One way to improve…
Posted by James Cook, Yechen Li, Software Engineers and Ravi Kumar, Research Scientist"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everythin...
We take a look at the performance of our 86,529 hard drives and break down the failure rates by manufacturer and model size.
CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by Jeff McCormick, a developer at Crunchy Data, showing how to build a PostgreSQL cluster using the new Kubernetes StatefulSet feature. In an earlier post, I described how to deploy a PostgreSQL cluster using Helm, a Kubernetes package manager. The following example provides the…
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As the purpose of a database system is to store data, there is close relationship with the filesystem. Yves Trudeau reconsiders the use of ZFS with MySQL.
Choosing between MariaDB and MySQL? In this blog, we provide an overview of the key differences between MariaDB vs. MySQL and explore their unique use cases.
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Now that we can launch cloud-based compute and storage resources with a couple of clicks, the challenge is to use these resources to go from raw data to actionable results as quickly and efficiently as possible. Amazon Redshift allows AWS customers to build petabyte-scale data warehouses that unify data from a variety…
It's a little known fact that the PostGIS geography type since PostGIS 2.2 (well was introduced in 2.1 I think but had a bug in it until 2.1.4 or so), supports any spheroidal spatial reference system that measures in degrees. When an srid is not specified, it defaults to using 4326, Earth WGS 84 long lat.
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Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL users, we heard you loud and clear, and added support for high availability (HA) and read replicas, helping you ensure your database workloads are fault tolerant.
There's been much focus on MongoDB, Elastic and Redis in terms of data exposure on the Internet due to their general popularity in the developer community. However, in terms of data volume it turns out that HDFS is the real juggernaut. To give you a better idea here's a quick
Because Citus is an extension to PostgreSQL and not a fork, the effort required to remain compatible with the latest versions of the open source PostgreSQL database has been dramatically reduced. After a new PostgreSQL version is released, Citus packages are often updated and in sync within days.
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