Jinpeng Zhang is a database engineer on the storage team at PingCAP. Doing performance tuning on distributed systems is no joking matter. It’s much more complicated than on a single node server, and bottlenecks can pop up anywhere, from system resources in a single node or subcomponent, to cooperation between…
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Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. There has been a lot of hype recently about graph databases. While graph databases such as DataStax Enterprise Graph (based on Titan DB), Neo4, and IBM Graph have been around for several years, recent announcements of managed cloud services like AWS Neptune…
Kyle J. Davis is the technical marketing manager at Redis Labs. Even in the so-called modern web application, AJAX HTTP requests fly back and forth between the client and server layers, moving data in both directions. HTTP requests, under the guise of REST protocols, also serve as the transport between some…
Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. The past 10 years have seen the explosive growth of large-scale distributed systems. This trend has produced a whirlwind of creativity in the database world that is arguably without precedent in the history of the software industry. The result is a healthy…
CockroachDB is a cloud-native SQL database for building global, scalable cloud services that survive disasters. Built on a transactional and strongly consistent key-value store, CockroachDB scales horizontally, survives disk, machine, rack, and even datacenter failures with minimal latency disruption and no manual intervention, supports strongly consistent ACID transactions, and provides…
Kyle Davis is the technical marketing manager at Redis Labs. One of the hardest parts about writing a user-facing app or service is controlling access to resources. Decisions about access control are some of the earliest to be made and can make or break an entire platform. It’s usually a…
Roshan Kumar is senior product manager at Redis Labs. Real-time streaming data ingest is a common requirement for many big data use cases. In fields like IoT, e-commerce, security, communications, entertainment, finance, and retail, where so much depends on timely and accurate data-driven decision making, real-time data collection and analysis…
Apache Solr is a subproject of Apache Lucene, which is the indexing technology behind most recently created search and index technology. Solr is a search engine at heart, but it is much more than that. It is a NoSQL database with transactional support. It is a document database that offers…