Tag: transactions

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Tony Darnell; Adding a replicated MySQL database instance using a Group Replication server as the source March 25, 2019 Leave a comment You say you want a Replication? One of the best features of MySQL is the ability to use MySQL‘s built-in database replication feature to automatically replicate data from one server (source/master) to another (slave/replica). Group Replication was added in MySQL 5.7 as a way to provide a high-availability solution using a new variation of MySQL replication. (In some earlier posts, I explained how to setup Group Replication using three MySQL database servers and how to ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Willi Goesgens. This is an update of the 2016 blog post How to put ArangoDB to Spartan-Mode. A lot of things have changed in the last years. We moved our API implementation from JavaScript to C++. ArangoDB now has a new (default) storage engine, namely RocksDB instead of MMFiles. RocksDB is a great storage engine. However, it also trades memory for speed. If you start with the default configuration you might end up with using much more memory for ArangoDB than expected. Therefore let’s focus on our new storage engine, and make a configuration to ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; With eCommerce, you can turn a humble website that’s dependent on advertising for profit, into a digital storefront and burgeoning business of its own.This glossary is a complete collection of terms, concepts, products, and services you should know to master dropshipping.What is Dropshipping?Traditional eCommerce typically sees retailers maintaining the inventories used to fulfill their customers’ orders. Dropshipping is a different strategy for eCommerce. Retailers don’t actually maintain inventory for the product or products that they’re selling. Instead, the dropship model means the retailer passes incoming orders to either a manufacturer, supplier, or distributor to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Andy Jones, Senior Technical Representative at Treehouse SoftwareBy Joseph Brady, Director of Business Development at Treehouse SoftwareBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSCustomers that still have business-critical data locked in mainframes want to exploit this data with Amazon Web Services (AWS) agile services for analytics purposes, to create new communication channels, and for quickly developing new innovations. Fortunately, Treehouse Software’s tcVISION replicates data in real-time and bi-directionally between mainframes and AWS to allow for these new use cases. Treehouse Software is an AWS Partner Network ... Read More

Author: . Interested in NuoDB's elastic SQL database and want to know how it all works? Download our white paper on NuoDB's database architecture.Looking for the next-generation database As a NuoDB solution architect, I constantly talk to people about what they’re looking for in a database. More and more often, architects and CTOs tell us that they’re building their next-generation data center – often using containers or cloud infrastructure - and they need a database that fits this model. In their ideal world, they want a familiar relational database – but they want one that can deliver elastic capacity, maintain ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; The world of eCommerce has evolved.More and more retailers have jumped onto the eCommerce bandwagon which in turn, has created more competition for consumer transactions. As a result, we’ve seen new models of online retail emerge, such as dropshipping.Maybe you’ve even heard of it before, but does dropshipping work? And is it a good business decision?What is Dropshipping?Dropshipping has emerged as an alternative to conventional eCommerce that allows retailers to collect orders from customers before passing those orders to distributors and suppliers for fulfillment.Basically, the use of dropshipping gives retailers a workaround, saving them ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Mike Loukides. Clockwork (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Ethics, Privacy, and Security" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, April 15-18, 2019. We are surrounded by systems that make ethical decisions: systems approving loans, trading stocks, forwarding news articles, recommending jail sentences, and much more. They act for us or against us, but almost always without our consent or even our knowledge. In recent articles, I've suggested the ethics of artificial intelligence itself needs to be automated. But my suggestion ignores the reality that ethics has already been automated: merely claiming to ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This is the second part of the multi-series Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions. In Part 1 I presented an overview of the available tools, I discussed the reason for using the AWS Benchmark Procedure for Aurora, as well as PostgreSQL versions to be used, and I reviewed Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10.6. In this part, pgbench and sysbench will be running against Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 11.1. At the time of this writing the latest PostgreSQL version is 11.2 released about a month ago. It’s worth pausing for a second to quickly review the PostgreSQL versions currently available ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Jim Hatcher, Principal Architect. Microservices are starting to take over nearly every aspect & angle of modern enterprises In one survey of more than 350 senior development stakeholders, 91% said they are currently using or have plans to use microservices and 92% said they increased their number of microservices in the last year. This rise has come in conjunction with an imperative for businesses to be far more agile in their development of applications and software—an imperative driven by increasing amounts and types of data. The microservices imperative Historically, when organizations developed ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Willi Goesgens. This is an update of the 2016 blog post How to put ArangoDB to Spartan-Mode. A lot of things have changed in the last years. We moved our API implementation from JavaScript to C++. ArangoDB now has a new (default) storage engine, namely RocksDB instead of MMFiles. RocksDB is a great storage engine. However, it also trades memory for speed. If you start with the default configuration you might end up with using much more memory for ArangoDB than expected. Therefore let’s focus on our new storage engine, and make a configuration to ... Read More