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My ideas: Databases

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Support staged deprecation of ICD resources (i.e. allow users to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' and 'prod')

Want way to designate ICD resources as 'non-prod' (vs. 'prod') so that when deprecation of older versioned resources occur (like Rabbit 3.9 happening today on Sept 21st), the 'non-prod' flagged resources can be deprecated a week or two earlier. Th...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Make `idle_in_transaction_session_timeout` a configurable setting in databases for postgres

Real life scenario application has a bug that causes a DB transaction to never be closed postgres needs to keep old tuple versions for as long the transction is open autovaccum can't delete old tuples tables start to get bloated performance degrad...
over 3 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

create a dashboard with your park overview (cutomizable dashboard) to manage the assets

giving the possibility for your client to create customizable dashboards for their entire list of accounts, sortable by technology and/or acount and/or locatization (AZ) of each node and status. Eg: i have 4 accounts with VSI, mongo and postgresql...
10 months ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

Mongo Db restoration progress percentage / progress bar

Please provide accurate information when we create a new instance of a database from back up it always shows 94% completed when it actually is restoring the data and some times it takes hours to complete the restoration but the progress bar keep s...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Future consideration

Have the Failover check "down-after-milliseconds" Sentinel attribute to be Customer configurable

The down-after-milliseconds is the time in milliseconds an instance should not be reachable (either does not reply to our PINGs or it is replying with an error) for a Sentinel starting to think it is down. Currently we are unable to configure/chan...
6 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Database for Redis - multiple members in read-only mode

Because our workload is in 95% read-only, and only 5% are writes, we would benefit with different setup - have one member as read/write node, and multiple others as read only - similar what Redis Sentinel is doing.
12 months ago in Databases 0 Future consideration

Start a Cloud-based Telecommunications Service

Most telecom providers are heavily dependent on large computing infrastructure. By using the cloud can reduce internal computing resource needs and release the excess for use by paying customers. Cloud communications providers deliver voice and da...
almost 3 years ago in Databases 2 Not under consideration

ICD/Cloudant : schedule the backup

Need to be able to schedule the backup of a database, eg date & time when the backup should be started. The time of the automatic backups is unknown (and different for each instance). For Cloudant the schedule should allow to run the backup sc...
over 4 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

SmartCloud Email data usage list for all users

The customer had Interested in knowing cloud end users Email data usage list for all users.
almost 6 years ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration