Technical insights and best practices for Database Administration
With Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems, the LAMP stack landscape is shifting. We benchmark MySQL 5.1's raw speed against the new PostgreSQL 8.4 features to see which database belongs on your Norwegian VPS.
Is your database locking up under load? Forget throwing more RAM at the problem. Here is the battle-tested my.cnf configuration to handle high concurrency on Norwegian infrastructure.
Is your database locking up under load? Learn how to optimize MySQL 5.1 on CentOS, tune your my.cnf for heavy traffic, and why disk I/O latency is the silent killer of web applications.
With Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems shaking the open source world, we analyze the technical trade-offs between MySQL and PostgreSQL for high-traffic Norwegian infrastructure.