The Database Scalability Blog

I've lived around databases all my life, 21st century is challenging for them: big data, throughput, complexity, virtualization, global distribution - it's all scalability. I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, solving this problem is a workoholic's heaven, so I'm having great time!
My agenda is to stay technical, no marketing and sales BS, give my summarized set of views and opinions to urgent topics, events and latest news in database scalability.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Concurrency is not parallelism

No so new, but still good piece of reading: http://blog.golang.org/2013/01/concurrency-is-not-parallelism.html "Concurrency is the c...

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

MySQL thread pool and scalability examples

Nice article about SimCity outage and ways to defend databases: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2013/03/16/simcity-outages-traffic-cont...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

They say: "Relational Databases Aren't Dead"

This is a good read, claiming: " Relational Databases Aren't Dead. Heck, They're Not Even Sleeping ", http://readwrite.co...

Friday, January 4, 2013

Partial partitioning and sharding

I came across this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14136633/difference-between-partial-replication-and-sharding I was wondering if sh...

Friday, December 21, 2012

The battle on the OS...

I came across this piece: http://www.zdnet.com/windows-has-fallen-behind-apple-ios-and-google-android-7000008699/ , and I'm all nostalg...

Monday, December 17, 2012

Database Performance, a Ferrari and a truck

In the last days I got several queries, from colleagues and customers, about one thing I thought it&...

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

"(Cloud) is complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"

This is Larry Ellison keynotes in Oracle OpenWorld on September 2008. Only 4 years ago. "The...

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About Me

Doron Levari

I'm the founder and CTO of ScaleBase, a venture capital backed startup company, developing state of the art solution to solve relational databases scalability and high availability.

An Oracle DBA since 1997, have administered database versions from Oracle7 till Oracle11g. My experience includes a senior and leading DBA in large organizations in the government and hi-tech industries, administering complex databases serving critical applications and data warehouses with large volumes and 24X7 availability, and with integration of almost every feature and product in the Oracle database offering.

An enterprise application software architect since 2001, specializes in the Java/JEE technology stack, with specific focus on Oracle middleware offering – from Oracle9iAS, OC4J and nowadays – the WebLogic platform.

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