Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

In this configuration, the AMI and boot is paravirt (PV), the kernel is making hypercalls instead of privileged instructions, and the system is using paravirt network and storage drivers. But not all workloads: some are network bound (proxies) and storage bound (databases). ## 5. The first was c3. 0% performance overhead.

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Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

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VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance). Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences.

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VoltDB

JANUARY 12, 2018

So, in the spirit of things, we’ve laid out a few New Year’s resolutions that all database professionals can take into account as they look to turn over a new leaf in 2018 and build on their successes. These systems are fundamentally non-transactional (they lack ACID compliance). Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Operating systems support. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 September 2021. Linux: Amazon Linux AMI 2017.x. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 October 2021. x86 (64bit-only).

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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

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SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. Starting with the Linux 4.18

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Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

This blog post was originally published in November 2017 and was updated in June 2023. Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). What is MariaDB? Enhanced security is another advantage MariaDB.

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Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. While ultimately this new system should be able to take advantage of the latest advances in consensus for improved performance, that’s not realistic given a 6-9 month in-production target. replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023. Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Sharding is a preferred approach for database systems facing substantial growth and needing high availability.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

which is difficult when troubleshooting distributed systems. Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Investigating a video streaming failure consists of inspecting all aspects of a member account.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

The queues component of our methodology comes from Performance Monitor counters, which provide a view of system performance from a resource standpoint.". However, some seem to have missed Davidson's point regarding the importance of resources and rely almost entirely on waits to present a picture of query performance and system health.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. A Query Execution Plan is the way a database chooses to run a specific query. This system variable enables control over optimizer behavior. Hopefully, MySQL will be adding this in the upcoming releases.

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SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. The reduction effort started when we shipped SQL Server 2017 ( [link].) Partitioning allows SQL Server to scale to the largest systems with record-setting performance.

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Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

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. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

Single-Socket Database Servers. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. HPE has already submitted a new official TPC-H result on SQL Server 2017 for a single-socket, HPE Proliant DL325 Gen10 1U server that was 743,750 QphH@1000GB. This system has one AMD EPYC 7502P 32-core processor and 512GB of RAM.

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Percona

AUGUST 15, 2023

This blog was originally published in February 2017 and was updated in August 2023. MySQL replication is a process in which data from a primary MySQL database is copied and sent to one or more secondary databases, known as replicas. It also enables geographically distributed databases for disaster recovery.

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SQL Performance

MAY 1, 2020

I was a bit perplexed by this issue, since the system was certainly no slouch — plenty of cores, 3TB of memory, and XtremIO storage. Still, if you stack a bunch of high-transaction databases on there, checkpoint processing can get pretty sluggish. Change the Target Recovery Time of a Database. databases AS d.

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Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

TL;DR: A lot has changed since 2017 when we last estimated a global baseline resource per-page resource budget of 130-170KiB. To update our global baseline from 2017, we want to update our priors on a few dimensions: The evolved device landscape. The Moto G4 , for example. Here begins our 2021 adventure. Hard Reset.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 29, 2023

There is no way to model how much more traffic you can send to that system before it exceeds it’s SLA. This is unfortunate, because we’d really like to be able to build systems that have an SLA that we can share with the consumers of our interfaces, and be able to measure how well we are doing.

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SQL Performance

JULY 8, 2020

In my examples I’ll use sample databases called TSQLV5 and PerformanceV5. The outer query then filters from those three orders only those that were placed on or after July 8 th , 2017. This query generates the following output: orderid orderdate -- - 10250 2017-07-08 (1 row affected). Example for performance reasons.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. In each of the deployment models, the role of the database administrator is to make sure that SSRS is stable, dependable, and recoverable.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 30, 2017

Once connected, the systems that power call centers generally don't do a good job of using and sharing available information. AWS Lambda functions made the corresponding calls to the database and scheduling software, making sure that the interaction happened quickly and at extremely low cost.

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SQL Server According to Bob

APRIL 24, 2018

I also started my career developing on UNIX systems with C++ and databases like Ingres. As I moved to other jobs, the PC was becoming very popular as was the Windows Operating System. Last October we released SQL Server 2017 including support for Linux and Docker Containers. The result of this command looks like this.

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Particular Software

MARCH 15, 2021

As popular as NoSQL databases have become, you’d be hard-pressed to find a successful business that isn’t running some flavor of SQL somewhere. For NServiceBus systems, our SQL Persistence package allows you to use whatever flavor of SQL works best for you, supporting dialects for Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

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. Cost" column shows the optimizer's cost estimate for each query as reported on the test system. BountyAmount.

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

SQL Server 2017 CU10 does not show behavior. · SQL Server 2017 CU12 exhibits the behavior. Several event types are included in the health session, some of which include predicates to remove noise from the system health session. 512 byte response (use database context xxxxxx, default language xxxxxxx, test size xxxxx).

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SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Prior to SQL Server 2017 CU4 for Linux (Linux only) the generation of a sequential UUID may not function as expected. On Windows the system stores this in the registry and during startup increments the value. Conflict with existing data is unlikely but the new value may sort before those values stored in the database already.

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MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. What is the number of resources I should stay under? How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? What impact does the increased use of mobile devices have?

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. include <sys/time.h>

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. Michigan) in 2002 for use in product life cycle management, it was recently popularized for IoT by Gartner in a 2017 report.

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ScaleOut Software

MAY 4, 2018

Traditional stream-processing and complex event processing systems, such as Apache Storm and Software AG’s Apama , have focused on extracting interesting patterns from incoming data with stateless applications. Michigan) in 2002 for use in product life cycle management, it was recently popularized for IoT by Gartner in a 2017 report.

Processing 40

Processing IoT Programming Software Engineering 40

The Symphonia

DECEMBER 13, 2017

that of the ability to overwhelm downstream systems with unfettered load?—?got got a lot smoother at re:Invent 2017. A thousand-times scaled Lambda could easily cause significant performance problems to a modest SQL database server. Enter Reserved Concurrency At re:Invent 2017 the Lambda team announced a new feature?—?

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. Are there inherent time relationships in the messages that need to be preserved as they travel across the system? At least once?

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SQL Performance

MAY 7, 2019

You can also get wait statistics using the Server Reports add-in to the new Azure Data Studio tool, and using Query Store from SQL Server 2017 onwards. Someone complained about a sluggish system yesterday afternoon or a report that timed out last Tuesday? Waits Resources. You can get to the library at [link]. No problem.

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