Database

List of databases

Type of databases

Indexing
- B-Tree indexes are effective for range queries
- Fast read and slow write operations
Materialized Views
- pre computed complex query results which are stored to do faster access queries
- Generally used for business intelligence (BI) or non frequently updated data set.
Denormalization
- Reduce complex joins to improve query performance
- Store redundant data to reduce the complexity of database queries and speed up data retrieval.
- tradeoff: updates must be carefully managed to maintain consistency across the database
Vertical Scaling
- Scale database by increase the hardware specs like RAM, CPU cores/freq., storage, etc.
- Single point of failure
Caching
- Store frequently accessed data in a faster storage layer
- Be Aware of cache invalidation
Replication
- create replicas of your primary database on different servers for scaling the reads
- Synchronous replication
  - data is copied to the replica servers simultaneously as it’s written to the primary server ensuring immediate consistency
  - can introduce latency as it waits for write operation in secondary/replica server to complete
- Asynchronous replication
  - Primary server doesn’t wait for replicas to confirm the write on secondary/replica server
Sharding
- Splitting a large database into smaller, more manageable pieces, mutually exclusive subsets of data and distributed is called sharding.
- Each shard is a separate database that contains a subset of the data.

Atomicity
- Whatever started can be rolled back
Consistency
- transactions only make changes to tables in predefined, predictable ways.
Isolation
- the concurrent transactions don’t interfere with or affect one another.
Durability
- changes to your data made by successfully executed transactions will be saved, even in the event of system failure.