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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

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. I hope this helps!

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees.

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Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

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Understanding Execution Plan Operator Timings

SQL Performance

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. The following examples use the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ), with a single index added: CREATE INDEX PP ON dbo. SQL Server makes some timing adjustments in parallel plans to promote consistency, but they are not perfectly implemented.

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