Working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic means an increase in the importance of isolated infrastructures; more specifically ones that can only be accessed through an internal network, but in a way that authorized people...

Database administration goes beyond ensuring smooth operations to having historic performance that will offer some baselines for capacity planning, get real-time performance for load spikes, automating a large cluster of nodes and having a backup...

For any database, the load balancing of all the requests coming from clients is an important and fundamental mechanism to ensure scalability. A proper load balancing solution spreads all the client requests evenly across all...

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that supports a wide variety of input dataset sources. It is able to store data in flexible JSON-like documents, meaning fields or metadata can vary from document to document and...

Modern IT needs to have a non-relational, dynamic schema (meaning no requirements for Joins Statements Queries) to provide support for Big Data/real-time applications. NoSQL databases were created with the notion of improving data processing performance...

Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) allows a database administrator to restore or recover a set of data from a backup from a particular time in the past, using a tool or a system. Once PITR starts logging...

Keeping backups of your database is one of the most important tasks in any production environment. It is the process of copying your data to some other place to keep it safe. This can be...

Data often requires high end security on nearly every level of the data transaction so as to meet security policies, compliance, and government regulations. Organization reputation may be wrecked if there is unauthorized access to...

When choosing a NoSQL database technology important considerations should be taken into account, such as performance, resilience, reliability, and security. These key factors should also be aligned with achieving business goals, at least as far...

Database backups are as important as the database itself, especially when ensuring business continuity after a technical hitch that may destroy the database completely. Typically, a backup is just a replication of the database’s contents...

Database backup for any organization should be an important undertaking for ensuring business continuity in any case of database catastrophe. Restoration of the operational database is only possible if there is a backup in place....

Database updates come with improved features for performance, security, and with new integrated features. It is always advisable to test a new version before deploying it into production, just to ensure that it suits your...