Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. Redis is an advanced key-value store. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk. Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […].

Cache 130

Cache Azure Benchmarking Performance 130

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

They can also bolster uptime and limit latency issues or potential downtimes. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions? Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™, along with additional support for MongoDB® database and Greenplum® database. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. So, which database service is right for your application? Single Node.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). InS does now offer an NVMe variant too, and the authors perform limited testing on that as well.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time. Caching Schemes. Large preview ).

Performance 125

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 125

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. The network constraints and what makes the web slow? How to make your website faster.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future. Managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions like ScaleGrid.io

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

AWS 102

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 102

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

Benchmarking 125

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 125

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. on end-to-end latency) and less than 0.15% on throughput.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. A client benefits from a pooled connection only if it connects to a child which has previously served a connection for this database+user combination. PgBouncer allows limiting connections per-pool, per-database, per-user or per-client. Throughput Benchmark.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So what jumps out immediately here is the comment “The single-threaded PostgreSQL 12 performance was most surprising.” hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

n0derunner

MAY 27, 2022

The performance compares very well with hosted cloud database instances using the same class of processor (db.r5.4xlarge in the figure below). tl;dr A Nutanix cluster can persist a replicated write across two nodes in around 250 uSec which is critical for single-threaded DB write workloads.

Performance 52

Performance Metrics Database Cloud 52

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

SLOG: serializable, low-latency, geo-replicated transactions Ren et al., That’s where SLOG (Serializable LOw-latency, Geo-replicated transactions) comes in. Current state-of-the-art geo-replicated systems force their users to give up one of: (1) strict serializability, (2) low-latency writes, (3) high transactional throughput.

Latency 70

Latency Processing Benchmarking Systems 70

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 128

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 128

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. With ScaleGrid, users can effortlessly deploy hosting services for databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Greenplum Database.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server. MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

Tuning 138

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 138

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. Individual processes generate WAL records, and latency is very crucial for transactions. This is generally referred to as “ partial page writes ” or “ torn pages.”

Database 119

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 119

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. Oracle Log File Sync.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging. Messaging doesn’t do that.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The initial version of Delos went into production after eight months using a ZooKeeper-backed Loglet implementation, and then four months later it was swapped out for a new custom-built NativeLoglet that gave a 10x improvement in end-to-end latency. For Facebook’s Delos, reconfiguration latencies of 10s of ms are ok.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads. It is very common to have large resource-hungry databases separated across nodes using anti-affinity rules. In such a case we have a Bandwidth heavy workload profile (reporting) sharing with a Latency Sensitive workload (transactional). Time based benchmark actions.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Benchmarking Testing Performance 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

In short, each cluster is, in reality, a single database with high availability and other functionalities built in. Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. Anyhow, we are here to talk about Proxies.

Games 124

Games Latency Traffic Cache 124

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 109

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109