System Design: How to Scale a Database

The TOPDB Top Database Index is created by analyzing how often database names are searched on Google 

There are a lot of things to consider when choosing your database. Choose wisely because you’ll be married to that database for a long time. One case study is Amazon Marketplace which started with Oracle and tried to migrate after developing their own database solutions. The migration took somewhere between 5 to 10 years, and they seem to be still partially using Oracle. Though if your company reaches Amazon scale, then you’re probably doing very well. 

Should you delete records from your database or instead use a soft delete? 

Database isolation allows a transaction to execute as if there are no other concurrently running transactions.

Match vs Find: Which One To Use in MongoDB

Installing plv8 On All Platforms 

What Is plv8? 

V8 is a JavaScript engine written by Google. plv8, sometimes written as "PL/v8", is a Procedural Language wrapper around V8 that lets you write PostgreSQL stored procedures in JavaScript. 

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