Distributed scaling with Relational Databases
Background A lot of articles will talk about how to scale databases. Typically, they will talk about the purpose and the general idea of sharding and »
Local Secondary Index vs. Global Secondary Index
Secondary Index A secondary index is used in databases to help speed up queries when we want to grab data from popular columns or if we »
Sharding Techniques
Introduction Sharding can be summarized as a technique in which a database table can be split into multiple database servers to optimize read/write performance. Benefits »
RDBMS Optimization
Indexing Probably the easiest tweak to implement. It can usually be done with one SQL command. However, an index should be made based on a good »