Archive for the 'database' Category

[RUS ]MatView с инкрементным обновлением (FAST) без триггера и лога / PostgreSQL : Форум на SQL.RU

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

post to russian postgresql forum that describes 2 ways to simulate materialize views on postgres

MySQL vs PostgreSQL Benchmarks | Random Bugs

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

yet another mysql vs postgresql benchmark using “OSDB”. Small difference between the two, but consider that benchmark was done on 2-way SMP, 3GB ram, 1 SATA DISK and a small dataset.

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs

www.sdsqlug.org/presentations/May2009/MySpace_DB_Overview.pptx

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

myspace architecture presentation, talks about how to myspace solves its database issues

Optimizing Linux for random I/O on hardware RAID – Fishpool

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

explains use linux IO scheulers with presence of smart RAID controllers.

pg51g

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

‘diff’ utility for postgresql databases

Yahoo!’s PNUTS Database: Too Hot, Too Cold or Just Right? | High Scalability

Friday, August 21st, 2009

writeup on yahoo PTUNS (distributed database ). Also, see the original paper if you are interested.

Асинхронность в DBD::Pg / Великий Язык PERL! / Хабрахабр

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

async requests using DBD::pg

[2009 Presentation on SkyTools from Skype] Image:Moskva DB Tools.v3.pdf – PostgreSQL Wiki

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Link to a page with a download for file:Moskva_DB_Tools.v3.pdf‎ (file size: 488 KB, MIME type: application/pdf)

Open Source Database Magazine

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

pdf magazine that covers open-source databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL and alike.