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Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Joanna. Gaming Database Requirements A gaming database serves many masters. It needs to handle users, e-commerce shopping carts, quotas, leaderboards and game tools like weapons or race car features. For multi-player games this becomes more complex, and for businesses with multiple games that need to share this data, even more complex. The speed of ingestion and the quickness of queries in the database directly affects the user's experience of responsiveness in the game. Many games use an RDBMS, like MySQL. It stores game world state and essential persistence data. Large, persistent-world, massively multiplayer games, have a hugely complicated ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Joanna. Popular Bubble Group Messenger App Migrates to Self-Managing ClustrixDB to Scale Write-heavy Workload Clustrix, the provider of the world’s leading scale-out SQL database announced that Hit Labs, the company behind the Bubble Group Messaging app, has deployed ClustrixDB. This announcement adds Hit Labs to a dynamic list of social applications that have moved from Amazon Aurora and other MySQL derivatives to ClustrixDB due to its ability to scale well beyond the alternatives, without sharding or master-slave configurations, and without sacrificing any ACID properties. With ClustrixDB, Hit Labs saved six to eight months of development time ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: Henry Hwang. This is the second blog in our series about ClustrixDB 9’s new Zones feature that supports creating Metro Area Clusters. If you missed the first blog “Database Metro Area Clustering Across Data Centers”, we recommend giving it a read since it provides a great overview of Metro Area Clustering. In this blog we’ll walk through the installation and configuration of ClustrixDB 9 using Zones, thereby creating a Metro Area Cluster. High-Level Steps Build a cluster with instances in three zones Assign nodes a zone ID ClustrixDB needs the servers it runs on to meet some ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: BetterSQL. Data integrity, high availability, and easy disaster recovery have always been a major requirement of our ClustrixDB customers. Their OLTP applications are mission-critical and often customer- or consumer-facing, which makes the acceptable margin for error virtually nil. Over the years we have brought a variety of innovations to market to meet these requirements, such as our patented ClustrixDB nResiliency for fault tolerance and the Clustrix Rebalancer that automatically optimizes data distribution for the number of available nodes. With the advent of networking between data centers within a metropolitan region, such as with AWS Availability Zones ... Read More

Feed: Clustrix Blog. Author: bbruce. Before you get any ideas, we're talking about good old-fashioned database ACID compliance. ACID is not a new concept to developers. Certainly every DBA knows it, but collectively, the software industry lost its addiction to ACID some time ago. This is because the industry found a new thing to crave: distributed computing. Internet giants like Google and Facebook created massive businesses that eclipsed the scale of anything traditional enterprises had done previously. They were smart and focused on a user experience that included performance. To reach a quarter of the planet it, was a given ... Read More