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How to Think About Database ROI as You Move to the Cloud
Feb 12 2020
Haidee LeClair
Enterprise financial services organizations are considering how to increase efficiency and reduce costs as they deploy banking applications that meet the demands of customers today.
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What Does Distributed SQL Really Mean?
Feb 5 2020
Martin Kysel
The world is moving to the cloud and various post-monolithic SQL databases are emerging. The term “NewSQL” was coined by 451 Research analyst Matt Aslett in 2011, and in 2016 Aslett and Professor Andrew Pavlo of Carnegie Mellon University published a paper titled, “ What’s Really New with NewSQL ,” describing NewSQL as a new class of database management systems that “want to achieve the same scalability of NoSQL DBMSs from the 2000s, but still
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Deploy the NuoDB Database in Docker Containers - Part I
Jan 23 2020
Joe Leslie
At NuoDB , we’ve not only been working hard to improve upon on our distributed SQL database engine, but also to make it easier to adopt NuoDB into CI/CD pipelines. NuoDB is a ANSI standard and ACID compliant SQL database that is suitable for all common deployment models, such as bare-metal, virtual machines, cloud and hybrid-cloud, and most recently container-based environments, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. At its core, NuoDB is designed to be highly scalable and fault-tolerant with the ability to load-
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Running NuoDB in Docker - Part III: How to use common SQL execution GUI tools with NuoDB
Jan 16 2020
Joe Leslie
In my first NuoDB in Docker blog, I outlined how to deploy the NuoDB database in Docker containers . To follow that up, a second blog demonstrated how to configure scale-out and continuous availability, and how to visually monitor a NuoDB database to easily meet
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Why and When You Need Transactional DDL in Your Database
Jan 2 2020
Martin Kysel
We typically talk about transactions in the context of Data Manipulation Language (DML), but the same principles apply when we talk about Data Definition Language (DDL). As databases increasingly include transactional DDL, we should stop and think about the history of transactional DDL. Transactional DDL can help with application availability by allowing you perform multiple modifications in a single operation, making software upgrades simpler. You’re less likely to find yourself dealing with a partially upgraded system that requires your database administrator (DBA) to go in and fix
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Answers to Your 5 Questions about Database Scalability
Dec 6 2019
Ariff Kassam
Recently we hosted a webinar discussing the different scaling options for databases. There are a lot of databases on the market, so it’s important to choose one that offers the scalability and consistency you’re looking for, and that’s going to vary based on the application and deployment in question. To learn more about scale up vs. scale out, eventual vs. strong consistency, and the trade offs different database solutions make to optimize scalability, please watch the webinar or read more about it in this
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Top 10 FAQs from KubeCon 2019 in San Diego
Nov 26 2019
Martin Kysel
What does NuoDB do?
TL;DR: NuoDB is a distributed SQL database .

NuoDB is a SQL database, it is fully transactional, fully ACID, and fully consistent. This is a stark contrast to NoSQL solutions that have emerged in the last decade.

NuoDB is distributed, meaning that it is able to scale horizontally and automatically keeps multiple replicas in sync. Having multiple replicas of a database is a strict requirement for any service having 99.99% or better availability guarantees.
Do you run in the
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How Can I Confirm That My NuoDB Upgrade Completed Successfully?
Nov 20 2019
Dafna Zayden
Nice work! You just upgraded your NuoDB environment. (If you haven’t done this step, my four simple steps to upgrading your NuoDB database post might help you.)

So now that you’ve upgraded your environment, how can you be sure your upgrade process has completed? After all, your environment probably contains more than one node, right? So, what happens if you missed one? How can you be sure that you’ve completely upgraded your database?

This can be a
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NuoDB Golang Operator Now Available, Delivering On Automated Day 2 Operations
Nov 13 2019
Joe Leslie
Here at NuoDB we're pretty fired-up! This week we’re saddling the horses in anticipation of our trip out to KubeCon 2019 held in San Diego next week! A bunch of us will be there showing the benefits of running the NuoDB distributed SQL database in either single or multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. We’ll also be attending a lot of the sessions and learning how others in the community are using Kubernetes.
Visit NuoDB at KubeCon
If your company is considering reducing IT infrastructure and application deployment costs by moving SQL database workloads to either on-
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3 Inflection Points Transforming the Banking Industry
Oct 29 2019
Simon Ambridge
Between 2010 and 2017, personal loans by FinTech start-ups as a proportion of total loans leapt from 1 percent to 36 percent. That jump alone caused a lot of consternation in traditional banking . And it’s estimated that technology disruption could affect up to 80 percent of revenue for traditional retail banks beyond 2020. The changing face of global commerce is also reflected in a
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