Being that Amazon is one of the most-used cloud vendors, it is only natural that one may ask “How can Kubernetes be used in AWS?“. And the answer is – not that different than with other cloud vendors. What one needs is two things (and this applies universally): a Kubernetes cluster + the Percona […]
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Recently I noticed the site Jan 2019 results download link) are a subset of the mongo javascript shell five dbaas_*.yml test suites used are sensible-for-DBAAS subsets of the same aggregation, decimal, and competition-comparison page at mongodb.com.
But the scripts are not 1-to-1 tests of features. There are more than twice as many test scripts as […]
When we think about the cloud, often we consider many of the benefits: scalability, elasticity, agility, and flexible pricing. As great as these features are, security also remains a business-critical concern. In an on-premise environment, every aspect of security is owned by you. Looking at the database layer specifically, these include (but are not […]
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Recently I had a case where queries against Aurora Reader were 2-3 times slower than on the Writer node. In this blog post, we are going to discuss why.
I am not going to go into the details of how Aurora works, as there are
Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there is one question regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when RDS MySQL?
DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure and without installing software. But when trying to find out which […]
