Percona
APRIL 14, 2023
During the recession of 2008, they experienced firsthand how fast money and assets can vanish. Below, we outline some proactive steps for achieving cost efficiency and maintaining performant database environments amid a turbulent economy: 1. Here we are, with an economic downturn looming globally and some countries facing a recession.
Percona
JUNE 4, 2023
In this blog, we’ll provide a comparison between MariaDB vs. MySQL (including Percona Server for MySQL ). Introduction: MariaDB vs. MySQL The goal of this blog post is to evaluate, at a higher level, MariaDB vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. What is MariaDB?
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Brendan Gregg
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.
SQL Performance
MARCH 17, 2020
This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. It has 32GB RAM, with 24GB available to the SQL Server 2019 instance. It would be nice if SQL Server could push the aggregation down into the scan and just return distinct values from the column store directly. Test Environment.
Dean Hume
APRIL 24, 2018
As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).
Dean Hume
APRIL 24, 2018
As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).
Dean Hume
APRIL 24, 2018
As data centers and volumes of servers have grown, so has the overall amount of electricity consumed around the world. Electricity used by servers doubled between 2000 and 2005 (and has continued growing ever since) from 12 billion to 23 billion kilowatt hours. CPU Utilization and Power Consumption (Source: Blackburn 2008).
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