Redis Transactions & Long-Running Lua Scripts

Posted: July 8, 2020

Redis offers two mechanisms for handling transactions - MULTI/EXEC based transactions and Lua scripts evaluation. Redis Lua scripting is the recommended approach and is fairly popular in usage. Our Redis™ customers who have Lua scripts deployed often report this error - “BUSY Redis is busy...

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MongoDB Index Builds – Preventing Users From Triggering New Builds

Posted: June 30, 2020

Index builds on MongoDB production clusters need to be handled with the utmost care. We have documented the issues in detail in one of our previous blog posts - The Perils of Building Indexes on MongoDB. Depending on the size of your data, both foreground and background builds can bring your...

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Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Posted: June 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. DigitalOcean is quickly building its reputation as the developers cloud by providing an affordable, flexible and easy to use cloud platform for developers to work with. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a...

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ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Posted: June 9, 2020

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean hosting for MongoDB® database, the only DBaaS to...

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Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Posted: June 4, 2020

DigitalOcean is a cost-effective cloud provider that caters to, and is widely adopted by the developer community. ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™, along with additional support for MongoDB® database and Greenplum® database. Along with many popular...

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Exploring MySQL Binlog Server – Ripple

Posted: May 22, 2020

MySQL does not limit the number of slaves that you can connect to the master server in a replication topology. However, as the number of slaves increases, they will have a toll on the master resources because the binary logs will need to be served to different slaves working at different speeds. If...

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Posted: May 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL...

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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Posted: April 28, 2020

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. This is especially apparent in today's world where organizations are doing whatever they can to optimize and reduce their costs. Over the...

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Posted: April 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. You have to choose your hosting model, a cloud provider, and then your primary and standby regions to deploy to. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make - are you able...

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

Posted: March 23, 2020

In our previous posts in this series, we discussed the case for connection pooling and introduced PgBouncer. In this post, we will discuss its most popular alternative - Pgpool-II. Pgpool-II is the swiss army knife of PostgreSQL middleware. It supports high-availability, provides automated load...

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Redis Transactions & Long-Running Lua Scripts

MongoDB Index Builds – Preventing Users From Triggering New Builds

Best MySQL DigitalOcean Performance – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

ScaleGrid DigitalOcean Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™ Now Available

Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Exploring MySQL Binlog Server – Ripple

What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 3 – Pgpool-II

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