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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Supercomputing Predictions: Custom CPUs, CXL3.0, and Petalith Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft

on Myths and Legends of High Performance Computing β€Šβ€”β€Šit’s a somewhat light-hearted look at some of the same issues by the leader of the team that built the Fugaku system I mention below. Over time we are seeing more applications with more complex physics and simulation characteristics so HPCG is becoming more relevant as a benchmark.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance. HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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What Adrian Did Next?β€”?Part 2?β€”?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Rich became co-author of the second edition of the Sun Performance Tuning book, to describe how it worked.

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HammerDB Concepts and Architecture

HammerDB

This article Threads Done Right… With Tcl gives an excellent overview of these capabilities and it should be clear that to build a scalable benchmarking tool this thread performance and scalability is key. You can download and compile TCL/TK 8.6 HammerDB CLI v3.1 HammerDB CLI v3.1

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

The goal is to find a set of the most promising candidates who should receive the resource in order to maximize the overall performance of the targeted group of customers. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The resource can be homogenous (i.e. Applications. Applications.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ This is similar to the ​​ suspend and resume ​​ operations performed by ​​ the operating system. ​​ Performing ​​ safety ​​ checks ​​ of SQL Server and all other system components before production deployment is very important.

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