In the realm of database management systems, performance is key. Two popular systems are MySQL, a traditional relational database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL document-based database. To gauge their efficiency, we orchestrated a benchmarking test on Amazon Web Services (AWS), utilizing MySQL on the Relational Database Service (RDS) and MongoDB on DocumentDB. The goal was to … Continue reading Database Performance: MySQL vs MongoDB
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Improving Software Development with Learnings from LSMs
How can one improve the software development process in a startup where the time to delivery of a feature is of utmost importance. Lets understand how we improve the feature development process by applying some learnings from LSMs
Best Practices for Creating Indexes in MySQL
MySQL is one of the most used databases in the current world. There has been a lot of research and thought gone into making the indexes in MySQL + InnoDB performant keeping the space complexity of these indexes in the same ballpark. In the context of this blog post, we will be going through the … Continue reading Best Practices for Creating Indexes in MySQL
Understanding Transactions with MySQL and Slick
How can Full GC cycles on one JVM could impact the latencies on other JVMS sharing the common MySQL RDS
Systemic Issues and Me 