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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level.

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

Scalegrid

Recognized as the fastest growing database by popularity, PostgreSQL was named the DBMS of the year in both 2018 and 2017 by DB-Engines, and continues to grow in popularity in 2019. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. So Which Is Best? Comparison Overview.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Joined OrionX to do some analyst and advisory work

Adrian Cockcroft

Having worked with something like 70 large and small companies over the past decade, the business processes and best practices have been tested and work well. So right from the beginning, I’m happy to spend some time getting back up to speed and developing some of my ideas around new hardware capabilities.

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Where programming languages are headed in 2020

O'Reilly

” Willing also offered a shout-out to the CircuitPython and Mu projects, asking, “Who doesn’t love hardware, blinking LEDs, sensors, and using Mu, a user-friendly editor that is fantastic for adults and kids?” 2019 brought another surprise when Oracle moved Java SE to a subscription-based model. ” Java.

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]

Smashing Magazine

Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. Front-End Performance Checklist 2019 [PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word]. 2019-01-07T12:00:13+00:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. From Fast By Default: Modern loading best practices by Addy Osmani (Slide 19). Vitaly Friedman.

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The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Amazon even provides an official [recommendation] (2021): "For EC2 instances launched on the AWS Xen Hypervisor, it's a best practice to use the tsc clock source. But I'm not completely sure.

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How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

HammerDB

Nevertheless in this blog sometimes we do publish performance data to highlight best practices or potential configuration pitfalls and although we’ve mentioned this one before it is worth dedicating an entire post to it as this issue seems to appear numerous times running database workloads on Linux. uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom