IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

Today, DBAs who have traditionally managed relational database systems such as Oracle and SQL Server are also managing companies’ "non-relational" databases. As platforms such as MongoDB and Cassandra ...

Subscription businesses need to be sure they invest correctly in performance and scalability to ensure customers have an engaging experience. You can spend your full ...

Scalability and elasticity are related, though they are different aspects of database availability. Both scalability and elasticity help to improve availability and performance when demand is changing ...

In the past, the formula for scaling live production was simple: build bigger. Larger switchers, denser racks, and more powerful servers promised higher capacity and smoother performance. But in an ...

You must have come across the term ‘scalability’ lots of time at your workplace. Scalability means the ability of any system to scale up or down depending on the workload. On the same lines, database ...

Scalability is the ability of a database to constantly adjust its resources to meet application demands. As an application grows or traffic increases, the original server resources, such as RAM, CPU, ...

In order to achieve blockchain mass adoption, three fundamental problems should be solved. Let’s dive into the second one: vertical scaling. This is Part 2 of a three-part series in which Andrew ...