Category Archives: Database

Endings and Beginnings (Part 2 – Gaia Platform)

Posted on February 27, 2020 by halberenson

Shortly after I retired from Amazon my wife and I decided we would need to temporarily relocate to New York to help out with family. Just after we arrived in NY my semi-retirement plan would take a u-turn. Literally. Back … Continue reading →

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Endings and Beginnings (Part 1 – AWS)

Posted on August 13, 2019 by halberenson

Last week’s announcement of Amazon Aurora Multi-Master being generally available marked a kind of ending for me. It also served as a reminder that I haven’t written anything about my new venture, Gaia Platform. So nearly two years after I … Continue reading →

Posted in Amazon, Aurora, AWS, Cloud, Computer and Internet, Database, Microsoft, RDS, SQL Server | 4 Comments

Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 3)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by halberenson

Back in Part 2 I discussed the relationship between failures and the people resources needed to address them, and demonstrated why at hyperscale you can’t use people to handle failures.  In this part I’ll discuss how that impacts a managed … Continue reading →

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Amazon moving off Oracle? #DBfreedom

Posted on January 3, 2018 by halberenson

A bunch of news stories, apparently coming off an article in The Information, are talking about Amazon and Salesforce attempting to move away from the use of Oracle.  I’m not going to comment specifically on Amazon, or Salesforce, and any … Continue reading →

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16TB Cloud Databases (Part 1)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I could claim the purpose of this blog post is to talk about Amazon RDS increasing the storage per database to 16TB, and to some extent it is.  It’s also an opportunity to talk about the challenges of a hyperscale … Continue reading →

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The beauty of Amazon RDS Multi-AZ

Posted on April 3, 2016 by halberenson

I’m working on a blog post that tracks advances in high availability from the 1950s until today.  It will be way too long for most to read, but I’ll eventually finish writing it since it amuses me.  In the mean … Continue reading →

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Landed. Hiring.

Posted on August 29, 2014 by halberenson

I’ve landed at Amazon Web Services as Vice President of Relational Database Services (RDS).  And I’m hiring! Please keep in mind that this is my personal blog and the content does not necessarily represent the view of Amazon!  

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SQL Server 2014 Delayed Durability/Lazy Commit

Posted on March 6, 2014 by halberenson

I am having a lot of fun watching everyone get excited over SQL Server 2014’s Delayed Durability feature, mostly because I invented it back in 1986.  At the time no one was particularly excited by the idea.  It’s possible someone invented it … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 4

Posted on March 10, 2013 by halberenson

I knew that the Cairo Object File Store (OFS) was in trouble my first week at Microsoft.  I’d been asked to attend a design meeting for OLE DB that would start at 6PM.  On Friday.  Why such a seemingly important … Continue reading →

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WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 3

Posted on February 25, 2013 by halberenson

Although there are several ways to interpret the phrase “integrated storage” (or “unified storage”) one of the most important ones to focus on is that it creates a single store for Unstructured, Semi-Structured, and Structured types of storage.  The differences … Continue reading →

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