Choosing a database management system to maximize availability and scalability [closed]

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How can I handle heavy Database interaction at peak hours? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Can you help me with my capacity planning? (3 answers) Closed 5 years ago. We run an application more like competition organizing websites like HackerEarth.com, HackerRank.com. When the tasks start, we see huge load on our server. The problem is, we need to interact with Postgres heavily in order … Read more

Oracle application and DB scale out in private cloud

I have a client who was looking to migrate their Oracle environment to Amazon – probably Amazon RDS but were unable to get the SLA they wanted from it. I need to know if deploying something to similar to Amazon RDS for Oracle is possible and what with to make Oracle “elastic” within a Private … Read more

How to migrate from Oracle RDB for OpenVMS to MySQL in Windows?

I have a legacy Alpha server with a RDBMS database. This db is replicated in a MySQL db with many bad php scripts that drops all the tables and takes everything from the Alpha. This works very slow and is becoming unmaintainable. Is there a better way to fix this than programming again the scripts? … Read more

Could facebook minimize the number of servers if they used a faster database rather than MySQL? [closed]

Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question Facebook needs 30,000 Servers to run. Seriously that’s a lot! Facebook is old. It uses MySQL. … Read more

What does the management system in RDBMS mean?

When I hear someone mention any particular RDBMS, they generally refer to it as a database. What is intended by the term “management system”? Answer A database is simply someplace to store data — A file that you dump names & addresses into is technically a database. A database management system includes all the other … Read more

clustering MS SQL 2008 [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Closed 9 years ago. Possible Duplicate: Sql server active/passive vs active/active clustering I have a Project in DBMS just I need something like a BIG TITLES of What TO DO. Here a brief way about the Project: Install 3 WIN2K8 R2 one of them domain controller (easy) On non … Read more

After some minutes oracle database is down, but listener still active

I installed Oracle 12c R2 on my fedora 24 server. Before its updates and the last upgrade to fedora 26 it was running ok, but then neither the listener nor the database can be bringed up. After some research i found a very usefull script called Atlas, designed for fresh system instalation on fedora 26. … Read more

Is there a “rigorous” method for choosing a database? [closed]

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Simulate power loss with force unmount?

I want to test disaster recovery of RDBMs after power loss under high load. My idea is to mount data directory under new mountpoint and then execute umount -f during the load and investigate outcome / state of files. My expectation is that with non-durable configuration the data should be inconsistent and consistent otherwise. Does … Read more