Questions tagged [rdbms]

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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…
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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"?
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Could facebook minimize the number of servers if they used a faster database rather than MySQL?

Facebook needs 30,000 Servers to run. Seriously that's a lot! Facebook is old. It uses MySQL. I was wondering if they started with a much faster and efficient database, my question: 1. What database would that be? 2. What would be an estimate on …
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How can I handle heavy Database interaction at peak hours?

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 to give random questions…
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Choosing a database management system to maximize availability and scalability

If I was planning on choosing a database management system and know that the data needs to be available as close to 100% as possible and that it needs to scale as well as possible, is there a "best" database management system for that at this time?…
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