The latest News and Information on Databases and related technologies.
We have talked about it for a long time, but now it is here: The Icinga DB RC1 In case you managed to avoid all of the talk about it, Icinga DB is the replacement for our IDO (Icinga Data Output). What does this mean for you? It means SPEED. Especially for larger environments. So, what’s in the RC? It is basically a finished product. We want to give both you and us some time to test it out, find bugs and get comfortable with it.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is an amazing and reliable cloud service provider. AWS, like Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, provides everything you need to host an application without having to worry about running the underlying servers and network configuration. Everything you need to quickly begin hosting is provided as a packaged services. However, deploying an application on AWS presents some challenges.
NiCE IT Management Solutions is proud to serve global key-players in advanced Oracle database performance and health monitoring. Read the latest customer reference on how the NiCE Oracle Management Pack is helping a US workers’ compensations agency in their Oracle operations.
Oracle launched its Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure in 2018. This second-generation cloud platform is designed to help companies run their most challenging workloads securely. Its ability to run Oracle Autonomous Database makes it the first self-driving platform in the industry. It uses the latest artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to provide a high performing environment that doesn’t compromise on security.
MySQL is a popular open-sourced relational database server. It comes in many flavours, including Enterprise and Community editions. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform all provide their own managed MySQL services. The available versions and features vary from provider to provider. As an added complexity, AWS provides three different MySQL services, each one of them different. Let’s take a closer look.
Grafana by default uses sqlite3 as a local database to hold the configuration information (such as users, dashboards, alerts, etc.). But did you know you can also use other databases for this purpose? Many large customers prefer to use either Postgresql or MySQL/MariaDB, and we recently had a request from a company wanting some help to migrate their configuration data from Postgresql to MySQL. This is not a common request, so we didn’t have any pre-existing tooling to do it.
Redis is an extremely fast NoSQL data store. While it is used mainly as a cache, it can be applied to uses as diverse as graph representation and search. Client libraries are available in all of the major programming languages, and it is provided as a managed service by all of the top cloud service providers. For the past three years, Redis has been named the most loved database by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
