Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

2019-01-15T13:30:32+01:00. 2019-04-29T18:34:58+00:00. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. A particular favorite in the WordPress space is WP Super Cache. Jack Lenox.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

We’ve been covering papers from VLDB 2019 for the last three weeks, and next week it will be time to mix things up again. MongoDB is an important database, and this paper explains the tunable (per-operation) consistency models that MongoDB provides and how they are implemented under the covers. What’s their secret???

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The worldwide ASP 18 months ago was ~$300USD , so the average performance in the deployed fleet can be represented by a $300 device from mid-2019.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124