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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. To be clear, we are rock-solid in our stance that MongoDB is not open source.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook

The Morning Paper

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.

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Tuning PostgreSQL Database Parameters to Optimize Performance

Percona

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Some applications perform better by tuning a parameter and some don’t. wal_buffers. Conclusion.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

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.

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

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.