Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Co-founder Eliot Horowitz recounts ( {coding}bootcamps.io ): “MongoDB was born out of our frustration using tabular databases in large, complex production deployments.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The work includes changes to the CHERI ISA, the C compiler, the C language runtime, the virtual memory APIs, and the CheriBSD kernel. On a context switch the kernel saves and restores user-thread register capability state, and updates virtual-physical mappings. For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used.

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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.

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Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. This guide provides an overview of what high availability means, the components involved, how to measure high availability, and how to achieve it.

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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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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020.

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Apica

MAY 10, 2019

The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. This is shared between all clients, so a pooled connection is available to all clients. A client benefits from a pooled connection only if it connects to a child which has previously served a connection for this database+user combination. High availability.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. All rely heavily on utilizing allocated portions from existing pools made available through specific providers as part of their service offerings.

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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.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. In exchange for this, your databases and applications will work just the same as they would in an on-premises installation, which makes this an easy way to start using Azure. Azure VM Types and Series.

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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.”

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HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Why is container security tricky?

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. GHz available cpufreq governors: performance powersave current policy: frequency should be within 1000 MHz and 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00 hardware limits: 1000 MHz - 4.00

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 MySQL comes pre-configured to be conservative instead of making the most of the resources available in the server. MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The TPC publishes an official Docker image on Docker Hub to enable the rapid deployment and testing of databases with HammerDB. This image includes example scripts to build schemas and test your databases with a single command. hammerdb>librarycheck Checking database library for Oracle Success. Database Configuration.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These VMs are not available in all regions, so you will want to check the availability in the Azure region that you are interested in using. Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

may not be directly comparable with the results from previous releases for your database. The reason for these changes is that over time for some databases more advanced features or drivers have been introduced that improve performance since the time that the original HammerDB transactions or interfaces were written. From HammerDB v4.0

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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]. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why. Programming Languages. HammerDB CLI v3.1

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

Speed 52

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Higher is better.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption.

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].

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management.

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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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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

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.

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SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

Single-Socket Database Servers. The initial reviews and benchmarks for these processors have been very impressive: AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout. AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked. TPC-H Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017. TPC-E Benchmark Results with SQL Server 2017.

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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

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? SQL Server 2005 introduces the snapshot database feature for point-in-time databases ​​ and online DBCC operations.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

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Alex Russell

MAY 9, 2022

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 are charting a course based on better information because they are cognizant that it is both valuable and potentially available. but against what baseline?

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