Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. For good performance, the filter blocks are cached in the RocksDB block cache and normally stay there since they are accessed frequently.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. Now, though, it’s time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a high performance PostgreSQL database needed by demanding applications.

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Tuning Cache Database Storage 44

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. For bare metals, any algorithm among deadline or noop (the performance difference between them is imperceptible) will be better than CFQ.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. Performant – The service would need to be able to maintain consistent performance in the face of diverse customer workloads.

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Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. Many different queries are executing in parallel, some hitting RAM cache, some hitting storage.

Benchmarking 76

Benchmarking Storage Tuning Cache 76

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

caching (Memcached etc.), Existing Solutions Dual Writes In order to keep two datastores in sync, one could perform a dual write, which is executing a write to one datastore following a second write to the other. In general, the separate life cycles of storage and broker greatly reduce the impact of broker replacement.

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Transportation Architecture Processing Storage 192

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

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. This benchmark can synthetically generate more precise key-value queries that represent the reads and writes of key-value stores to the underlying storage system.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

Based on these findings, the authors present four guidelines to get the best performance out of this memory today. The data we have collected demonstrate that many of the assumptions that researchers have made about how NVDIMMs would behave and perform are incorrect. Understanding Optane DIMM performance. Optane DIMMs are here!

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Don't do it. Do it less.

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

A co-worker introduced me to Craig Hanson and Pat Crain's performance mantras, which neatly summarize much of what we do in performance analysis and tuning. They are: **Performance mantras**. These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Don't do it. Do it less.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors. Atomicity A transaction must be an atomic unit of work; either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are performed. Consistency When completed, a transaction must leave all data in a consistent state.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

now has a version which will support parallelism for SELECT queries (utilizing the read capacity of storage nodes underneath the Aurora cluster). In this article, we will look at how this can improve the reporting/analytical query performance in MySQL. The second and third run used the cached data. Test data and versions.

Cache 46

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 46

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. A good example of how tuning is an iterative process.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

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