The CAP theorem is a tool used to makes system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. CAP has influenced the design of many distributed data systems. It made designers aware of a wide range of tradeoff to consider while designing distributed data systems. Over the year the CAP theorem has been widely […]
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Debugging Transactional And Locking Issues in MySQL
Introduction Database transactions are a logical unit of work or a group of related changes executed against a database. Transactions enable us to execute reliable units of work against a database and recover in case of failures. Transactions are “all-or-nothing” i.e they enable us to either execute all changes within the logical group or have […]
Architecture of a Relational Database Management System
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) have been around for over 20 years. RDBMS were one of the first multi-server multi user systems developed. Although a number of alternatives exist an RDBMS is still widely used. It is still the de facto storage engine for most applications. RDBMS have greatly evolved over the past 30 years. […]