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Everything about Database scalability

Ability to handle changing demands of resources

Database scalability is the ability of a database to handle changing demands by adding/removing resources. Databases use a host of techniques to cope. According to Marc Brooker: "a system is scalable in the range where marginal cost of additional workload is nearly constant." Serverless technologies fit this definition but you need to consider total cost of ownership not just the infra cost. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Database scalabilityA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Incorporating Serverless Computing into P2P Networks for ML Training: In-Database Tasks and Their Scalability Implications (Student Abstract)Influential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Implementing Cisco UCS SolutionsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: NoSQL databases: a step to database scalability in web environmentCited 141 times
  5. Go sideways: IBM Db2A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Oracle NoSQL DatabaseA closely related topic

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