Cloud

NoSQL and SQL: key-value access always scale

By Franck Pachot . I have written about some NoSQL myths in previous posts (here and here) and I got some feedback from people mentioning that the test case was on(…)

Oracle Database Appliance vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Introduction Oracle Database Appliances are very popular these days. And not only among new customers for this kind of engineered systems. Almost all customers already using old generation ODAs are renewing their infrastructure by choosing again ODAs, meaning that the(…)

YCSB (NoSQL benchmark) on Oracle Database

By Franck Pachot . The NoSQL technologies emerged for Big Data workloads where eventual consistency is acceptable and scaling out to multiple server nodes is an easy answer to increase throughput. With cloud services rising, those key-value document datastores(…)

Setup an NGINX Ingress Controller on Kubernetes

One of the most important and basic concept in Kubernetes is the Service exposition. How about exposing a Kubernetes Service deployed inside a cluster to outside traffic? Let’s have a look on the different approaches to expose a Kubernetes(…)

Amazon Aurora Serverless (PostgreSQL compatibility)

By Franck Pachot . I’ve written a blog post about serverless databases and here is an example of Amazon RDS Aurora PostgreSQL in serverless mode: When I’ve created the instance (15:55 –(…)

Amazon or AWS services?

By Franck Pachot . When I'm writing about a product I like to be precise about the name, the upper and lower case, and even more: do you know that was taking special care of writing Oracle 12cR2 before then(…)

What is Object Storage?

By Franck Pachot . I’ve always been working with databases. Before the cloud era, the most abstract term was “data”. A variable in memory is data. A file is data. A block of disk contains data.

Amazon DynamoDB: a r(el)ational Glossary

By Franck Pachot . There are many NoSQL databases. And, because SQL is an ISO standard, “No SQL” also means “No Standard”. Many have a similar API and similar objects, but with completely different names. Today, NoSQL databases are(…)

Data virtualization on SQL Server with Redgate SQL Clone

By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post I’ve installed SQL Server on the Oracle Cloud. My goal was actually to have a look at Redgate SQL Clone, a product(…)

SQL Server on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You can create a VM with SQL Server running in the Oracle Cloud. This is easy with a few clicks on the marketplace: Here are the steps I did above: Oracle(…)