For years, plenty of architecture discussions have leaned on a convenient idea: that SQL databases “don’t scale,” and that beyond a certain size the natural move is to abandon the
At a time when “scale” is often synonymous with sharding everything and building increasingly complex distributed systems, OpenAI is describing a notably restrained database architecture behind ChatGPT: a single PostgreSQL
Every sysadmin has seen the same pattern: backups start out as a clean pg_dump job, a couple of cron entries, and a bucket. Six months later it’s a fragile web
For years, running a couple of database queries has come with a hard-to-defend paradox: to do something simple, many developers end up launching heavy apps, installing huge toolchains, burning memory,
In modern infrastructure, cache is one of those quiet components that decides everything: whether a site feels instant or sluggish, whether an API survives a traffic spike or collapses, and
Databases rarely become “the bottleneck” with a clean warning. It usually starts with a small latency drift. Then CPU spikes appear during peak hours. Lock contention grows. Connection pools begin
When your MongoDB estate grows past gigabytes into multi-terabyte territory, the filesystem is not a footnote—it’s part of the performance envelope. With the WiredTiger storage engine, MongoDB’s I/O pattern (lots
Backing up a database is not optional: it’s the safety net of any digital project. A server failure, human error or ransomware attack can bring an application down for good
What happened. Redis has disclosed and fixed CVE-2025-49844, a critical (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in the Lua scripting engine that can lead to remote code execution (RCE). An authenticated user can
MariaDB has announced Enterprise Platform 2026 with a clear pitch to developers, data teams and DBAs: unify the transactional, analytical and vector engines in one high-performance platform, add built-in RAG
