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 Erik Bransberg | May 3, 2018 | VMware Greenplum
Problem When working with massive amounts of data, an MPP (massively parallel processing) architecture allows many compute nodes to process segments of the data individually before aggregating the results together. However, interactive applications have lower latency...
by Erik Bransberg | Apr 16, 2018 | Other
Today we have released build 18.4.16.1, which also marks our first LTS (Long Term Support) build. This marks an exciting transition for us, as we have been adding features at such a pace until now that we haven’t been able to really contemplate being able to do...
by Erik Bransberg | Feb 28, 2018 | Other
Automated Postgres Failover and Caching, with no code changes Thursday, March 8, 2018, 10am PDT Register Now Join us next Thursday for a discussion with Postgres community leader, Joshua Drake (“JD”) and Heimdall Data CTO, Erik Brandsberg on...
by heimdalladmin | Jan 30, 2018 | AWS
By Ka Lun Chan, CTO of Movietimes.com Performance is a major concern for any application developer and organization. Often enough, people don’t worry about it until revenue, organic traffic and session time start to dip or when they see high infrastructure costs on...
by heimdalladmin | Jan 27, 2018 | Web Scale
By Ka Lun Chan, CTO of Movietimes.com Database Performance is a major concern for any application developer and organization. Database optimization involves maximizing the speed and efficiency with which data is retrieved. This is a very tedious and boring...
by Erik Bransberg | Dec 11, 2017 | Security
Privacy Compliance Today Since HIPAA was enacted in 1996, it has added requirements for personal data security that has changed US healthcare security in dramatic ways. Healthcare providers must transition from being reactive (i.e. when data leakage occurs), to being...
by heimdalladmin | Dec 7, 2017 | Other
Heimdall Data is pleased to announce availability in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. All Heimdall SQL Optimization features can now be deployed in the Azure cloud. Below are the Feature Edition offerings: Heimdall Data Developer Edition (Non-production use) Fully...
by Erik Bransberg | Dec 6, 2017 | Web Scale
Scaling databases today can take two approaches. The first and simplest is vertical scaling which relies on larger database servers to process more requests in parallel. While simple to implement, this approach eventually reaches a limit, either due to disk or...
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...
