Databases

Capacity, responsiveness, endurance and recovery: the questions to ask when choosing SSD, NVMe or HDD storage for a website, application or NAS.

Redis, Valkey and key-value storage: understand the 2024 split, licensing, cloud services and the practical decisions behind a controlled migration.

Nuagerie has completed improvements to temporary storage used by its managed hosting platform. The work established a dedicated working area for MariaDB and expanded the platform’s shared temporary-storage capacity. Both changes were followed by functional checks and confirmation that the intended settings were active. Working space for database operations Databases can need temporary files while processing queries or performing maintenance. MariaDB provides settings for...

Nuagerie has completed the conversion of existing MyISAM tables to InnoDB on its managed hosting platform. The work focused on compatibility and the preservation of data and database structures. At completion, no MyISAM tables remained in the platform’s live database inventory. A modern storage engine for existing applications The storage engine determines how a database manages its tables. InnoDB is the default engine in MariaDB and supports transactions, row-level...

MySQL 8.4.0 was released on April 30, 2024, beginning the MySQL 8.4 Long Term Support series. Oracle’s official release history confirms this milestone. For organizations running websites and business applications, an LTS release provides a basis for maintenance planning. Choosing a destination still requires a clear understanding of the application, its dependencies and the support arrangements involved. Start with what the business needs to preserve A database change...