Remove 2019 Remove Database Remove Hardware Remove Tuning
article thumbnail

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

Scalegrid

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

article thumbnail

Updated Azure SQL Database Tier Options

SQL Performance

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
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Finding Distinct Values Quickly

SQL Performance

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. This follow-up post revisits the question for SQL Server 2019, using a larger number of rows. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. Test Environment. BountyAmount.

Servers 86
article thumbnail

How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

HammerDB

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. rc3-custom #1 SMP Mon Aug 12 14:07:33 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Welcome to Ubuntu 19.04 (GNU/Linux 5.3.0-rc3-custom hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 rc3-custom x86_64).

article thumbnail

The Speed of Time

Brendan Gregg

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126
article thumbnail

Understanding Execution Plan Operator Timings

SQL Performance

This can make it difficult to draw sound performance-tuning conclusions. The following examples use the public Stack Overflow 2013 database ( download details ), with a single index added: CREATE INDEX PP ON dbo. This next example query uses the same database and index as before. Compatibility level 150 is used exclusively.

Servers 95
article thumbnail

HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

Similarly for this guide MySQL can be swapped for a mySQL based databases such as MariaDB. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance.