High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL. Read-Intensive Throughput Benchmark.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

MySQL and PostgreSQL are the top two open source relational databases in the world, and Redis is the top key-value database. The open source model is not only popular with the developer market, but also enterprise companies looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce spend.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

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

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. As well as we will have the Performance Testing in DevOps panel at the Load Testing and Benchmarking workshop where I would be one of the panelist. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.]

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Performance Testing Education 182

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. This is particularly true when you’re migrating to an open source database that those on your staff may or may not be intimately familiar with.

Database 82

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 82

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Before introducing how this works it is important to acknowledge the ASHMON tool from which this functionality was adopted and more importantly its author Kyle Hailey for giving permission to add it as open source.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Monitoring Performance C++ 40

HammerDB

MAY 6, 2021

Percona Live ONLINE, THE Open Source Database Conference, is taking place May 12-13, 2021. This year Steve Shaw will be presenting HammerDB: A better Way to Benchmark Your Open Source Database on Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 13.30-14.30

Open Source 52

Open Source Benchmarking Database Website 52

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development. In capturing this data, attackers could gain full control of a system — and all its data and applications.

Java 187

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 187

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. community edition. innodb_buffer_pool_size. innodb_log_file_size. innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit. sync_binlog. innodb_io_capacity. innodb_io_capacity_max. slave_parallel_workers.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

The TPC Council recently announced that the TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source projects GitHub repository. The TPC is now hosting the HammerDB open source project’s Github repository. The first step towards this goal is the recently announced move of the HammerDB source code to the TPC-Council GitHub repository.

Code 48

Code Benchmarking Open Source Website 48

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Achieving Interoperability Among Providers Achieving interoperability between providers is possible through using open source standards, employing AI-driven systems, and enabling safe data transfer across various cloud services.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. Percona Monitoring and Management is a best-of-breed open source database monitoring solution.

Performance 104

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 104

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. While you are on 5.7, Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

Cache 101

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 101

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. Benchmark Test. CrystalDiskMark is an open source disk drive benchmark tool for Windows, and it's based-on Microsoft's Diskspd tool. Generation. Conclusion.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables. Percona XtraBackup is a 100% open source backup solution for all versions of Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL that performs online non-blocking, tightly compressed, highly secure full backups on transactional systems.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A simple sysbench benchmark on MySQL shows an overhead between six and 10 percent on CPU-bound systems when running perf with the default sampling frequency of 4000 Hz. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler.

Code 109

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 109

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! Percona Distribution for MySQL is the most complete, stable, scalable, and secure open source MySQL solution available, delivering enterprise-grade database environments for your most critical business applications… and it’s free to use!

C++ 80

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 80

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To sustain this data growth at Netflix, it has deployed open-source software Ceph using AWS services to achieve the required SLOs of some of the post-production workflows. In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements. It supports native sharding.

Open Source 87

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 87

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Google Lighthouse is an open-source tool that checks your page against rules for Performance, PWA, Accessibility, Best Practice, and SEO. Is it loading?

Performance 133

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 133

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases. In production environments, it is observed that a large value for shared_buffer gives really good performance, though you should always benchmark to find the right balance.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. We use Spinnaker to deploy instances and host the API containers on Titus ?—?which

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Google Lighthouse Google Lighthouse is a free and open source tool that is part of the Google Chrome DevTools family. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Microbenchmarks (MiBench) and the FreeBSD system call timing benchmarks show modest performance impact in some cases, and performance improvements in others (3.4% For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used. CHERI also rethinks the way that pointers and memory work, but the goal here is memory protection. slower to 9.8%

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies. The closing of a year lends itself to looking back. And making lists.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications. In fact, the market research firm Forrester says that the average container image is comprised of 70% open-source software.[1] 1] And unfortunately, open-source software is often fraught with security vulnerabilities.

Open Source 250

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 250

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization. We don’t even need a moment to gather which operating system is the most used one.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Web Performance Benchmarking. We focus on bringing two important benchmarking techniques together in a way that no other product does. Our analysis is based on the industry leading open source project Webpagetest. Uptime Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40