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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. Using a global ASP as a benchmark can further mislead thanks to the distorting effect of ultra-high-end prices rising while shipment volumes stagnate. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. Tap for a larger version.

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SQL Server 2016 – It Just Runs Faster: Always On Availability Groups Turbocharged

SQL Server According to Bob

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). First, we looked at the overall architecture of the replica design.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016. This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores.

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AppFabric Caching: Retry Later

ScaleOut Software

Well, performance comparisons aren’t so easy since the AppFabric license agreement states: “You may not disclose the results of any benchmark tests of the software to any third party without Microsoft’s prior written approval.” Testing Scale-Up Performance.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Besides that, the numbers can vary greatly depending on many factors, so our goal here is just to provide a few benchmarks that give some sense of the magnitude of potential improvements. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. RE94] Grouplens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews, P. Zhang, 2012.

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