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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. We’ve had nearly 4 million visits to the blog in 2018: thank you! As 2018 moves into 2019, let’s take a quick look back at some of the most popular posts on the blog this year. Fsync Performance on Storage Devices.

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Nutanix AES: Performance By Example.

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During.Next 2018 in London, Nutanix announced performance improvements in the core-datapath said to give up to 2X performance improvements. bssplit=64k/20:128k/20:256k/20:512k/20:1m/20 Normally storage benchmarks using large IO sizes are performed serially, because it’s easier on the storage back-end.

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Kubernetes for Big Data Workloads

Abhishek Tiwari

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). Storage provisioning. But Kubernetes storage is evolving quite quickly. Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. Our blog article, Tuning PostgreSQL for sysbench-tpcc , can guide you through the benchmarking process.

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How to improve Redo, Transaction Log and WAL throughput for HammerDB benchmarks

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This post at an entry-level discusses the options you have to improve log throughput in your benchmark environment. . 2018-11-02T15:38:27.662098+00:00 Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 1402 (LGWR switch) Current log# 1 seq# 1402 mem# 0: /home/oracle/app/oracle/oradata/VULCDB1/onlinelog/o1_mf_1_fjj87ghr_.log Checkpoint not complete.

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Aurora vs RDS: How to Choose the Right AWS Database Solution

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This post was originally published in July 2018 and was updated in July 2023. It also supports auto-scaling of compute and storage resources, dynamically adjusting capacity based on chosen utilization thresholds to optimize performance and costs. What are the differences between Aurora and RDS? How do I choose which one to use?

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench. c_ytd_payment: 10.00 7 rows in set (0.00 7 rows in set (0.00