Percona

JULY 13, 2023

MySQL, one of the most popular relational database management systems, recognizes this need and has introduced utf8mb4 in its 8.0 Here is an example comparison of utf8 and utf8mb4 using MySQL tables and queries: MySQL 5.7 The emoji will not be stored correctly in the database because the utf8 character set cannot store emojis.

Database 93

Database Games Open Source Engineering 93

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.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. It is available under a paid subscription.

Open Source 91

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 91

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. Why Use a GUI Tool? pgAdmin Cost: Free (open source).

Open Source 262

Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

We focused on OLAP-oriented parallel data warehouse products available for AWS and restricted our attention to commercially available systems. For cost calculations, the costs are a combination of compute costs, storage costs, data scan costs, and software license costs. Key findings. Serverless o?erings Query performance.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

ScaleGrid is a fully managed DBaaS that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis™, along with additional support for MongoDB® database and Greenplum® database. Along with many popular cloud providers, DigitalOcean also provides a Managed Databases service. So, which database service is right for your application? Single Node.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

Scalegrid

JULY 17, 2020

Why should a relational database even care about unstructured data? JSON database in 9.2 It is useful to validate incoming JSON and store in the database. JSONB storage has some drawbacks vs. traditional columns: PostreSQL does not store column statistics for JSONB columns. JSONB Patterns & Antipatterns.

Storage 321

Storage Database Efficiency Processing 321

The Morning Paper

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Reason #1 is interesting in as much as if you go looking hard enough you’re bound to find something, as in the well-known multiple-comparisons problem. There’s a handy comparison of the three here. The tools used by the participants were constrained by what was approved / available within the environment they were working in.

Programming 40

Programming Software Engineering Database Analytics 40

Percona

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why it’s essential to implement the best practices and strategies for MongoDB database backups. Why are MongoDB database backups important? Regular database backups are essential to protect against data loss caused by system failures, human errors, natural disasters, or cyber-attacks.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Database Storage Servers 52

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source 78

Open Source Database Storage Scalability 78

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

AWS 101

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 101

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

By collecting and analyzing key performance metrics of the service over time, we can assess the impact of the new changes and determine if they meet the availability, latency, and performance requirements. Our system doesn’t require strict consistency guarantees and does not use database transactions.

Traffic 279

Traffic Metrics Systems Strategy 279

Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. By default, MongoDB provides a snappy block compression method for storage and network communication.

Storage 112

Storage Network Open Source Latency 112

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, an application could use on-premises databases while also having access to ‘cloud bursting’ capabilities during times of high demand. This article will focus on the technology behind ScaleGrid’s Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solutions and how they align with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud structures. </p>

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency. Fault-tolerance.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

million” – Gartner Data observability is a practice that helps organizations understand the full lifecycle of data, from ingestion to storage and usage, to ensure data health and reliability. At its core, data observability is about ensuring the availability, reliability, and quality of data.

DevOps 194

DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 194

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Encrypting data at rest in a database management system (DBMS) refers to securing data by encrypting it when it is not being used or accessed. TDE can be applied at various levels, such as at the database, column, or cell level, depending on the organization’s specific security needs. Database-level encryption.

Database 94

Database Storage Servers Strategy 94

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

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

I’ve used a fourth instance to host a PMM server to monitor servers A and B and used the data collected by the PMM agents installed on the database servers to compare performance. MySQL comes pre-configured to be conservative instead of making the most of the resources available in the server. Why is that?

Tuning 137

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 137

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Perceptual quality measurements are used to drive video encoding optimizations , perform video codec comparisons , carry out A/B testing and optimize streaming QoE decisions to mention a few. Here, based on the video length, the throughput and latency requirements, available scale etc., The workflow is initiated. 4c & 5.

Media 171

Media Innovation Metrics Latency 171

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Percona

JULY 3, 2023

Partitioning is the concept of splitting large tables logically into smaller pieces for better performance of the database. However, a rule of thumb is that the size of the table should exceed the physical memory of the database server. The exact point at which a table will benefit from partitioning depends on the application.

Storage 84

Storage Database Performance Open Source 84

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Therefore, it requires multidimensional and multidisciplinary monitoring: Infrastructure health —automatically monitor the compute, storage, and network resources available to the Citrix system to ensure a stable platform. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server.

Latency 117

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 117

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Besides this, each product has some transient information like in-stock availability that is a subject of frequent updates (every 5 minutes or so). It is important that this style of navigation assumes high interactivity – each selection leads to recomputing of all available facets, their cardinalities, and products in a result set.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The Alliance for Open Media (AOM) has recently extended this format to specify the storage of AV1-encoded images in its AVIF format. Image compression comparison framework We have open sourced a Docker based framework for comparing various image codecs.

Code 212

Code Metrics Efficiency Open Source 212

Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Document databases advance the BigTable model offering two significant improvements.

Database 279

Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. The information it captures is, however, available going back somewhat further, providing a fuller picture of the trend lines of engine completeness. Count of APIs available from JavaScript by Web Confluence.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

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.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Dynatrace

JANUARY 15, 2020

Having released this functionality in an Preview Release back in September 2019, we’re now happy to announce the General Availability of our Citrix monitoring extension. Dynatrace Extension: database performance as experienced by the SAP ABAP server. Synthetic monitoring: Citrix login availability and performance.

Latency 36

Latency Performance Virtualization Infrastructure 36

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

Single-Socket Database Servers. For comparison's sake, Lenovo has an earlier submission of an official TPC-E result for a two-socket, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 2U server that has a TPC-E Throughput score of 7012.53. Among the 19 public processor SKUs, there are preferred choices for SQL Server at each available core count.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. now has a version which will support parallelism for SELECT queries (utilizing the read capacity of storage nodes underneath the Aurora cluster). Aurora instance type and comparison. MySQL on ec2.

Cache 47

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 47

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

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.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Alternatively, you can also use Speed Scorecard (also provides a revenue impact estimator), Real User Experience Test Comparison or SiteSpeed CI (based on synthetic testing). Paddy Ganti’s script constructs two URLs (one normal and one blocking the ads), prompts the generation of a video comparison via WebPageTest and reports a delta.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145