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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

Evergreen Continuous Integration: Why We Reinvented The Wheel , blog post from July 27, 2016, explains why and how it was done. David will also talk at the Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE) about Performance Engineering and Database Development at MongoDB. Both events would be on April 19, 2021.

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

SQL Server According to Bob

The result is a design for SQL Server 2016 that provides high availability for the most demanding workloads on the latest hardware with minimal impact and scalable for the future. However, if you are looking to accelerate your hardware, our Always On Availability Group design for SQL Server 2016 can keep pace. one without a replica).

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WAL Compression in PostgreSQL and Recent Improvements in Version 15

Percona

Some of the built-in features ( wal_compression ) have been there since 2016, and almost all backup tools do the WAL compression before taking it to the backup repository. Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. This is generally referred to as “ partial page writes ” or “ torn pages.”

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2016: The company adds service-loaded MongoDB Professional to its mix.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. In 2016, Jio swept over the subcontinent like a monsoon dropping a torrent of 4G infrastructure and free data rather than rain.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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AMD EPYC Processors in Azure Virtual Machines

SQL Performance

Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database. I wrote about using CPU-Z to benchmark the Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 processor in an Azure VM in this article. The slightly newer Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 (Broadwell) series which was introduced in Q1 of 2016, increased that to 2400MHz.

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