Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Another big jump, but now it was my job to run benchmarks in the lab, and write white papers that explained the new products to the world, as they were launched. I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

This is shared between all clients, so a pooled connection is available to all clients. High availability. PostgreSQL high availability is supported through Pgpool-II in-built watcher processes. Not supported – PgBouncer recommends use of HAProxy for high availability and load balancing. When are connections reused?

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 5. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks . bin/createdb pgbench./bin/pgbench

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new SQLite on-disk database /tmp/hammer.DB Under the HammerDB home directory is a scripts directory containing example scripts to test all supported databases except for Db2 in both tcl and python format for both TPROC-C and TPROC-H workloads. TMP/hammer.DB

C++ 62

C++ Virtualization Database Benchmarking 62

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

is the refactoring of the stored procedures for some of the TPROC-C workloads. The TPROC-C workload is derived from the TPC-C workload , the primary metric for TPC-C is called tpmC, the number of new order transactions processed per minute. Another key feature introduced with HammerDB v4.0 Therefore results from v4.0

C++ 52

C++ Benchmarking Metrics Database 52

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

HammerDB is open source and all of the source code is available at the sourceforge Git development site here [link] or the github mirror here [link]. TCL was designed as a language to be closely tied with C/C++ and at this lower level there is the compiled TCL (tclsh) or TCL/TK (wish) interpreter and supporting libraries.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 6. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

n0derunner

JUNE 28, 2019

One of the nice things about using public cloud is the ability to use pre-canned application virtual appliances created by companies like Bitnami. We can use these same appliance images on Nutanix AHV to easily do a Postgres database benchmark. Importing OVAs direct into AHV should be available in the future. wget [link].

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking C++ Virtualization Database 40

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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. SELECT DISTINCT c from sbtest where id between ? order by c. SELECT c from sbtest where id=? Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw.

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Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This overhead can be reduced by A) pcid, fully available in Linux 4.14, and B) Huge pages. - **Cache access pattern**: the overheads are exacerbated by certain access patterns that switch from caching well to caching a little less well. virtual (bgregg-c5.9xl-i-xxx) 02/09/2018 _x86_64_ (36 CPU) 05:24:51 PM proc/s cswch/s. Linux 4.14.12-virtual

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 40

Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

This blindspot usually extends up to the C-suite. It's challenging for teams climbing the maturity ladder to sift through the many available browser and tool-vendor data points to understand which ones to measure and manage. They sense their previous beliefs about what's "reasonable" need to be re-calibrated.

Performance 86

Performance Latency Metrics Engineering 86

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Various defragmentation ​​ utilities ​​ are ​​ available ​​ on the market today. Therefore, the database can have pages in any one of the three available verification states.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Usually, the most specific and relevant ones are: Time to Interactive (TTI) The point at which layout has stabilized , key webfonts are visible, and the main thread is available enough to handle user input — basically the time mark when a user can interact with the UI. Large preview ). compared to early 2015. How often is it the case?

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