Percona
OCTOBER 3, 2023
While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages? In this case, THP is enabled.
Percona
MARCH 23, 2023
This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company.
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Percona
APRIL 12, 2023
Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself.
Percona
JANUARY 14, 2019
What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Processed 4.15
Percona
DECEMBER 19, 2023
The simplest way to run it for testing is to use the docker container: docker run --name pg-tde -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword -d perconalab/postgres-tde-ext This command starts a container with the extension loaded and already enabled for the Postgres database.
SQL Performance
JULY 16, 2019
A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. Despite all of this, Intel is not going to lose their entire server processor business any time soon. So, what has changed my mind?
Percona
DECEMBER 21, 2023
The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. However, for 16 years since 2007, the MySQL query optimizer has had a “bug” that not only makes LIMIT 1 slower than LIMIT 10 but can also make the former a table scan, which tends to cause problems.
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