Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

Last month we looked at various types of database recovery, how they work, and how DBAs need to prepare for recovery scenarios. This month, let’s delve a little deeper into the issues and decisions ...

Jeff Carpenter is a technical evangelist at DataStax. The past 10 years have seen the explosive growth of large-scale distributed systems. This trend has produced a whirlwind of creativity in the ...

Data is one of the most valuable assets for any organization, and the risk of that data being tampered with, stolen or deleted is a fundamental fear. Over the past decade, we've seen an increase in ...

Document databases offer a wonderfully flexible data model that often leads to scaling and performance issues. Here’s how Aerospike overcomes these challenges. Digital transformation continues to be a ...

A data dictionary is like a bill of materials for a database; it lists all database components, including reports, tables, field names and field types. Such information helps audit databases for ...