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In monitoring, the term cardinality defines the number of unique time series stored in a time series database (TSDB). The higher the cardinality, the more resources are usually required for metrics processing and querying.
MongoDB is a cross-platform NoSQL database that uses JSON-like documents with optional schema to store data. It was designed for high availability, high performance for high-data persistance use cases, and automatic scaling. Of course, all with the right infrastructure in mind. It is usually a good choice for document-oriented use cases when you need quick prototyping or massive scale. With the massive scale comes massive traffic, though.
Redis is a popular open-source, in-memory data store used across industries by a variety of companies, including Github, Stack Overflow, Twitter and Netdata! Redis supports multiple use-cases including.
Since November 2021, Canonical and Microsoft have been offering a jointly supported Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro solution. With this offering, you can set up an optimised configuration of SQL Server on Ubuntu in a few steps. As database professionals, we should ensure the highest possible standards for database security and availability. In this blog, we will detail how the combination of SQL Server and Ubuntu Pro can help you achieve those goals.
At Grafana Labs we run a lot of distributed databases. These distributed databases all make use of a hash ring in order to evenly distribute workloads across replicas of certain components. For a more detailed description of the architecture of our projects, check out our Mimir architecture docs.
