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PostgreSQL’s ability to handle concurrent access while maintaining data consistency relies heavily on its locking mechanisms, particularly at the row level. When multiple transactions attempt to lock the same row simultaneously, PostgreSQL turns to a specialized structure called MultiXact IDs. While MultiXacts provide an efficient way to manage multiple locks on a single row, they […]

This is the second post of a two-part series. In Part 1, we explored how you can use Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) and Oracle Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies for data compression. In this post, we demonstrate how to use Heat Map statistics to monitor data usage and integrate this information with hybrid partitioning and ILM data movement policies to move data to more cost-effective storage solutions.

In this two-part series, we demonstrate how to optimize storage for Oracle database workloads on AWS by using Oracle’s built-in features, such as Heat Map, Automatic Data Optimization (ADO), and hybrid partitioning. These features help classify data by its lifecycle stage and automate data management tasks to significantly reduce storage costs, while enhancing database performance, especially for growing datasets. In this post, we explore how to use ADO and Oracle ILM policies to automatically compress data based on usage patterns.

In this post, we guide you through the process of benchmarking the performance of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL using the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) feature. To do this, we use pgbench – a tool for running benchmark tests on PostgreSQL databases, pgbench repeatedly executes a defined sequence of SQL commands across multiple concurrent database sessions. Through our benchmarking, you’ll learn how to quantify the performance improvements delivered by DLV.

Our continued engineering investments on how efficiently we can operate DynamoDB allow us to identify and pass on cost savings to you. Effective November 1, 2024, DynamoDB has reduced prices for on-demand throughput by 50% and global tables by up to 67%, making it more cost-effective than ever to build, scale, and optimize applications. In this post, we discuss the benefits of these price reductions, on-demand mode, and global tables.

We’re introducing warm throughput, a new capability that provides insight into the throughput your DynamoDB tables and indexes can instantly support and allows you to pre-warm for optimized performance. In this post, we’ll introduce warm throughput, explain how it works, and explore the benefits it offers for handling high-traffic scenarios. We’ll also cover best practices and practical use cases to help you make the most of this feature for your DynamoDB tables and indexes.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning and managing your computing infrastructure using code, rather than manual processes and settings. Popular IaC tools, services, and platforms include Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, and Pulumi, each offering unique features to automate and manage infrastructure across various cloud environments. In this post, we demonstrate how Terraform, one of our partner products, can be used to deploy and manage RDS for Db2 instance.

In this post, we discuss the nature of time-series data, its presence across different types of industries and various use cases it enables.Time-series data is one of the most valuable types of data used today by organizations across industries. Time-series data allows for a more in-depth understanding of changes, patterns, and trends over time. This enables organizations to gain insights into past behaviors and current states, as well as predict future values. The sequential tracking of data at precise time intervals enables both retrospective and prospective analysis that is extremely valuable for strategy, planning, and decision-making across industries. In this post, we discuss the nature of time-series data, its presence across different types of industries and various use cases it enables.

By combining DynamoDB streams with Lambda, you can build responsive, scalable, and cost-effective systems that automatically react to data changes in real time. In this post, we explore best practices for architecting event-driven systems using DynamoDB and Lambda. DynamoDB provides two options for capturing data changes (CDC): DynamoDB streams and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS). In this post, we focus exclusively on DynamoDB streams.

In this post, we show you how to use Amazon ElastiCache as a write-through cache for an application that uses an Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) table to store data about book awards. We use a Cassandra Python client driver to access Amazon Keyspaces programmatically and a Redis client to connect to the ElastiCache cluster.