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Share: When we posted our first ever Momentum blog about a year ago detailing our 2021 achievements, we were just weeks away from Russia’s renewed attack of Ukraine. While the war isn’t won yet and we’re approaching the one year anniversary of the attack, it’s heartening to see how much has changed around the world and that almost everyone now knows the expression: Slava Ukraini! So if we had to choose one word to best describe 2022 it might be: Resilience.
Accurate data is one of the most important aspects of any organizational function. It helps in decision-making and planning, and for most businesses, it also helps in generating revenue. The data can be anything from a list of clients and products to an inventory list. Nothing comes close to SQL timestamps regarding data accuracy, timeliness, and management. SQL Server timestamp is a critical component of relational databases, but they aren’t used on a daily basis by most database professionals.
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service provided by AWS and is tailor-made for serverless applications. As a fully managed service, we don’t have to worry about operational tasks with DynamoDB, such as hardware provisioning, configuring instances, scaling, replications, software patching, etc.
Find out how to effectively and easily monitor and troubleshoot MongoDB using Netdata.
Oracle is a highly performant and reliable multi-model database management system running online transaction processing, data warehousing, and mixed database workloads. Although Oracle environments are reliable and performant, monitoring dedicated Oracle on-premise or cloud deployments is crucial to safeguard business continuity.
Share: One of the latest benchmarks we did was for OSMC 2022 talk VictoriaMetrics: scaling to 100 million metrics per second - see the video and slides. While the fact that VictoriaMetrics can handle data ingestion rate at 100 million samples per second for one billion of active time series is newsworthy on its own, the benchmark tool used to generate that kind of load is usually overlooked. This blog post explains the challenges of scaling the prometheus-benchmark tool for generating such a load.