With the arrival of cloud computing – which represents a new IT model – databases still remain, in many respects, the exception to the cloud infrastructure rule. When most of the infrastructure is spread across numerous virtual resources, the database still resides on a fixed set of machines, in the cloud or outside of it, and frequently, using a specific storage solution. Continue reading
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Native Cloud Databases – Why Should You Care?
Posted in MySQL Cloud Database
Tagged database architecture, database scalability, MySQL, native cloud
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Divide and Conquer: How Virtual Partitioning Enables Elasticity
Databases are inherently limited by the capacity of the hardware they run on. Despite these limitations, partitioning offers a way for databases to scale out by splitting the data and putting it on different machines. More machines mean additional resources to manage more requests for more data. Continue reading
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