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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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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw. Error in Virtual User 1: mysqlexec/db server: Table 'mysql.proc' doesn't exist. H ammerDB CLI v3.1.

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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. Virtual Users. Virtual Users within HammerDB are operating system threads. HammerDB CLI v3.1

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?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. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ Latch enforcement ​​ changes the ​​ virtual ​​ memory protection ​​ ( VirtualProtect ) ​​ as the ​​ database ​​ pages are transitioned between the clean and dirty states. ​​ When the modification latch is acquired.

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