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1answer
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Switching to NoSQL for native JSON use?

I am rather comfortable writing concrete schemas with explicit primary keys, foreign keys, indexes, views and stored procedures. For queuing I use a NoSQL solution called: Redis. Recently I heard a ...
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4answers
326 views

One table with many rows or many tables with a few rows

I'm having a question rounding my mind. It's better to create one table and store a lot of rows there or create various tables and have a few rows on them? What's the performance and the I/O saved at ...
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4answers
389 views

Advice on choosing a really fast DBMS

I am working on a project that does real-time monitoring of data being transmitted, and logs if there are any of the various type of errors, etc. The CRUD operations are real-time. We initially ...
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1answer
336 views

Using an RDBMS for querying tens of Terabytes of time-series data?

I stumbled over an algorithmic / data-structures question over on SO, which I'll short quote: (...) opinions regarding best of breed data structures to be used for indexing time-series (aka ...
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3answers
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Database suggestion for a social network/ knowledge base community?

I am looking into various database types and DBMS's for a new project I am wanting to start in the summer. I have built systems in MySQL and postgreSQL , now I am wanting to expand my knowledge and ...
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0answers
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Best database for INSERT 2 millions of records around 3 hours and query data at the same time [closed]

I have a voting application. This voting process takes about 3 hours to complete. After 3 hours there will be 2 millions of records in the database. At the same time application needs to query the ...
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3answers
386 views

Best database choice for a highly scalable web ticketing system?

Essentially, we are developing using Ruby on Rails and want to make a highly scalable ticketing system. Essentially we will have a small database (containing event details and tickets sold) that will ...
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6answers
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About single threaded versus multithreaded databases performance

H2 is a single threaded database with a good reputation regarding performance. Other databases are multi-threaded. My question is: when does a multi-thread database become more interesting than an ...
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0answers
348 views

Which database technology for big structured data? [closed]

Scenario: Think you have got 100TB of text in 200 tables. This is structured related data. compareable to dbpedia only more data. Any really relational and distributed and performant database would do ...
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1answer
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Data transformation implementation

My company's database, I am working with, makes available a data to a lot of external applications. So I need to transform the same data to a lot of dynamic views. I can see that a former database ...