by Roland Lee | Jul 6, 2020 | Azure, Web Scale
Background In using databases as a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments are finding unexpected problems in particular when using DBaaS (Database-as-a-Service). One of these challenges is in connection management. There are three areas where...
by Roland Lee | Jun 6, 2018 | Other
Heimdall Data has been educating the market on the performance impact of data latency and the need for SQL caching. The awareness is paying off. Heimdall is now on the 1st page of Google search for “SQL caching” (see below). And the other preceding search...
by Roland Lee | May 25, 2018 | HA Failover, VMware Greenplum
Why Heimdall Data for Pivotal Data? As a transparent Database Proxy, Heimdall manages the interaction of Pivotal Greenplum and GemFire, all without code changes. Notable benefits include: Zero downtime: Automated Write Master failover Improved Performance:...
by Roland Lee | Jul 29, 2017 | Other
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” ~Phil Karlton Caching is complex and engineering intensive. Because it requires manual configuration (i.e. What to cache and invalidate), managing cache systems have been...
by Roland Lee | Jun 1, 2017 | Other
Recently it was announced that in MySQL 8.0, query caching would no longer be supported. This was due to lack of scale and performance for high-throughput workloads. Heimdall Data is a performance optimization platform that addresses these limitations. We offer a...
