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noatcards = True
isdraft = False
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weight = 110:weight
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# Database
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## Relational database management system (RDBMS)
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[Source: Scaling up to your first 10 million users ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg5onp8TU6Q )
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A relational database like SQL is a collection of data items organized in tables.
ACID is a set of properties of relational database [transactions ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_transaction ) .
- Atomicity - Each transaction is all or nothing
- Consistency - Any tranaction will bring the database from one valid state to another
- Isolation - Excuting transactions concurrently has the same results as if the transactions were executed serially
- Durability - Once a transaction has been committed, it will remain so
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There are many techniques to scale a relational database: master-slave replication, master-master replication, federation, sharding, denormalization, and SQL tuning.