More and more organizations are choosing structured query language servers to power their databases. Why?
Say Goodbye to Hard Disk Drives: Why Your SQL Server Needs an All-Flash Array
Topics: MySQL, flash storage, Technology Trends, Extreme Performance, cost savings
Storage for DBAs:
Ever been to one of those sushi restaurants where the food comes round in dishes on a conveyor belt?
Topics: IO Randomization, MySQL, IO scheduling, Storage for DBAs, SQL Server, Extreme Performance
SSD’s are like cordless phones and DVD’s. They made an improvement on an existing technology but didn’t revolutionize its use. In technology there is a difference between the concept of modernizing and revolutionizing. Modernizing is finding a way to do the same thing, just a little bit faster or little bit easier. Revolutionizing is either eliminating or vastly changing how something is done.
Topics: MySQL, OLTP, Oracle, database, flash, flash storage, reporting, SSD, Sybase, SQL Server, storage architecture, transactional, Virtualization
Flash is about latency and IOPs so why would it be good for Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence?
Excellent question. Yes, the typical marketing and wow-factor stats around flash are based on latencies and IOPs (Input Output Per Second). Data warehousing (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) is normally a throughput game, so what gives?
Topics: MySQL, Oracle, BI, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, data warehouse, database, ETL, flash, flash storage, reporting, SSD, Sybase, SQL Server