Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! ASPLOS’19.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. This means that as your application grows and more clients connect to the database, pgpool-II can distribute the load across multiple servers, preventing any one server from becoming overwhelmed.

Cache 118

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 118

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 108

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 108

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

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

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

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

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Cache 106

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 106

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 130

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 130

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. The changes done by an uncommitted transaction can be flushed or written to the redo log by the server. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies.

Cache 89

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 89

Percona

JULY 19, 2023

Creating the build environment The first step is downloading the source code to MySQL / Percona Server for MySQL 8.0.32 , then extracting the tarball. $ cd $HOME $ wget [link] $ tar -xvzf percona-server-8.0.32-24.tar.gz Next, we need to set up a location for our new plugin within the source tree. Plugin compiled.

C++ 85

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 85

HammerDB

MAY 26, 2022

If you are not already familiar with the programming languages that HammerDB uses, then this earlier post serves as an ideal introduction to what makes up the highest performing GIL free database benchmarking application. For Db2 either the server or client can be installed, for example v11.5.7_linuxx64_server_dec.tar.gz.

C++ 113

C++ Database Open Source Servers 113

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers. and the overall size will determine the amount of temporary storage available. Benchmark Test.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 120

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 120

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

There are a couple of blog posts from Yves that describe and benchmark MySQL compression: Compression Options in MySQL (Part 1) Compression Options in MySQL (Part 2) Archive or purge old or non-used data: Some companies have to retain data for multiple years either for compliance or for business requirements. It supports native sharding.

Open Source 92

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 92

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

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. The library is available in the artifactory repository for easy installation.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

It took a few months for major CDN players to support Brotli, but meanwhile it was seeing widespread adoption in tools, services, browsers and servers. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file. I put my fears aside and built Brotli:11 as a configurable server option.

Cache 79

Cache Website Servers Open Source 79

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Load balancing and replication: Scaling the database system horizontally by distributing the workload across multiple servers using techniques like connection pooling, read replicas, or implementing a primary-replica replication setup. effective_cache_size The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

<benchmark> <first_result>TPM</first_result> </benchmark> So why not just print NOPM and report a single metric for TPROC-C as per the official TPC-C workloads? Similarly for SQL Server TPM records Batches/sec which is the same value seen in the Activity Monitor in SSMS. and earlier. <benchmark>

C++ 52

C++ Benchmarking Metrics Database 52

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc. The RDS automated backup and PITR capabilities protect against data loss and system failures, ensuring high availability and performance while simplifying backup management for developers and DBAs.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 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. So I started a couple of instances to test Percona Server for MySQL under this CPU.

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

Enprowess

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Talent availability. is a structural, open-source progressive JavaScript framework used to build complex UIs and single-page applications (SPAs). It is an open-source front-end library based on JavaScript used in web development for creating interactive components and User Interfaces. Server-Side Rendering.

Open Source 52

Open Source Mobile Scalability Google 52

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Bottlenecks can occur, for example, if you have a sudden surge in traffic that your servers are not equipped to handle. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

It is open source and its development can be ported across devices with relative ease. As of September 2020, Statista reports that around 30,40,000 apps are available on Google Playstore. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

Testing 52

Testing Mobile Testing Tools Strategy 52

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real User Monitoring.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. The effective_cache_size provides an estimate of the memory available for disk caching. That said, you obviously do not want to reserve all RAM for PostgreSQL.

Tuning 58

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 58

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In general, the bitrate of your video should be about 80% of the available throughput on the network. But what do we need to fix it?

Network 143

Network Speed Website Mobile 143

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. In the end, it’s not the load events or server response times that define the experience, but the perception of how snappy the interface feels. There are many tools allowing you to achieve that: SiteSpeed.io

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

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]. In fact all of this source code is also included in readable form with each and every release. MS SQL Server/Linux and Windows. Oracle /TimesTen. Oratcl 4.6.

Architecture 40

Architecture Virtualization Open Source C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The project consisted of upgrading the shop software to our own open-source system and redoing the shop’s front end from scratch. Today, the website is much faster and ranks highly in various showcases and benchmarks. Working with jewellerybox on its online store was a welcome change of pace for us. Large preview ).

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Performance Cache Website Mobile 115

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Is it worth exploring tree-shaking, scope hoisting, code-splitting, and all the fancy loading patterns with intersection observer, server push, clients hints, HTTP/2, service workers and — oh my — edge workers? dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL server performance can sometimes be perplexing, and if you’ve ever wondered about the role of triggers in influencing your MySQL server’s memory allocation, this post is for you. Testing and Benchmarking : Thoroughly test triggers in a staging environment to evaluate their impact on performance.

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Cache Database Games Healthcare 64