This month MySQL turns 30. Once the bedrock of web development, MySQL remains immensely popular. But as MySQL enters its fourth decade, it ironically has sown the seeds of its own decline, especially ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

This article contains references to the term slave, a term that Microsoft no longer uses. When the term is removed from the software, we'll remove it from this article. You can use methods such as ...

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Storagetapper is deployed in production at Uber and used to produce snapshot and realtime changed data of thousands of MySQL tables across multiple datacenters. It is also used as a backup service to ...

Abstract: To prevent data loss and damage in MySQL database for a variety of causes, to ensure the normal and efficient operation of information systems and websites based on MySQL databases, this ...

Abstract: Database systems are nowadays increasingly deployed on multi-core commodity servers, with replication to guard against failures. Database engine is best designed to scale with the number of ...