Database Scalability

Architects' Tech Alliance

Jul 18, 2024 · Databases

Evaluating In-Memory Database Performance on the HaiGuang CPU: Challenges, Requirements, and Application Scenarios

This article examines the growing challenges faced by traditional databases, explains the fundamentals and advantages of in‑memory databases, and details a practical evaluation of the Chinese HaiGuang CPU’s suitability for such workloads, highlighting performance, security, and reliability aspects across various application scenarios.

CPU performanceDatabase ScalabilityHaiGuang processor

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Evaluating In-Memory Database Performance on the HaiGuang CPU: Challenges, Requirements, and Application Scenarios

Top Architect

Dec 11, 2021 · Databases

Scaling Zhihu’s Moneta Service with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

Zhihu’s Moneta service, handling over a trillion rows and billions of daily writes, migrated from MySQL to TiDB, achieving millisecond query latency, high availability, and horizontal scalability, and the article details the architecture, performance metrics, migration challenges, and lessons learned from this large‑scale deployment.

Database ScalabilityPerformance OptimizationTiDB

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Scaling Zhihu’s Moneta Service with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

Wukong Talks Architecture

Jun 7, 2021 · Databases

Distributed Databases: Types, Advantages, and 10 Popular Implementations

This article explains the differences between relational and NoSQL databases, outlines the definition, benefits and characteristics of distributed databases, and reviews ten widely used distributed database products such as TiDB, Google Spanner, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB, OceanBase, and others.

CockroachDBDatabase ScalabilityDistributed Databases

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Distributed Databases: Types, Advantages, and 10 Popular Implementations

Top Architect

Feb 11, 2021 · Databases

Case Study: Scaling Zhihu’s Moneta Application with TiDB

This article details how Zhihu’s Moneta service, handling over a trillion rows of user‑read data, migrated from MySQL sharding and MHA to the open‑source NewSQL database TiDB, achieving millisecond‑level query latency, high write throughput, and improved scalability through a layered architecture and TiDB’s advanced features.

Database ScalabilityDistributed SystemsHTAP

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Case Study: Scaling Zhihu’s Moneta Application with TiDB

Architecture Digest

Jan 8, 2021 · Databases

Scaling Zhihu's Moneta Application with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

This article details how Zhihu tackled the massive data and latency challenges of its Moneta service by migrating from MySQL sharding and MHA to the distributed NewSQL database TiDB, describing the new three‑tier architecture, performance gains, migration tactics, and expectations for TiDB 3.0.

Database ScalabilityDistributed SystemsHTAP

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Scaling Zhihu's Moneta Application with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

Top Architect

Dec 25, 2020 · Databases

Scaling Zhihu’s Moneta Service with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

This article describes how Zhihu’s Moneta application migrated billions of rows of user‑read data to the open‑source MySQL‑compatible NewSQL database TiDB, detailing the architectural redesign, performance improvements, migration challenges, and future expectations for TiDB 3.0.

Database ScalabilityDistributed SystemsHTAP

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Java Architect Essentials

Sep 6, 2020 · Databases

Scaling Zhihu's Moneta Service with TiDB: Architecture, Performance, and Lessons Learned

This article describes how Zhihu's Moneta service, which stores over a trillion rows of user‑read data, migrated from MySQL sharding to the distributed NewSQL database TiDB to achieve high availability, horizontal scalability, millisecond‑level query latency, and improved overall system performance.

Database ScalabilityDistributed SystemsHTAP

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Qunar Tech Salon

May 11, 2018 · Databases

Minsheng Bank’s Distributed Transformation and NewSQL Practice with SequoiaDB

The article details Minsheng Bank’s shift to distributed architecture, outlining regulatory drivers, business requirements, the adoption of sharding, cross‑center high‑availability, and new‑type distributed databases, and showcases performance results of SequoiaDB 3.0 across multiple high‑throughput banking scenarios.

Database ScalabilityDistributed SystemsNewSQL

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Minsheng Bank’s Distributed Transformation and NewSQL Practice with SequoiaDB