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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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 for Managers

HammerDB

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed. Derived Workloads.

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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

GHz 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) Up to 20% higher compute performance than z1d instances Up to 50 Gbps of networking speed Up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) We can also verify these capabilities by running some simple benchmarks on the different subsystems.

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PostgreSQL Performance Tuning: Optimizing Database Parameters for Maximum Efficiency

Percona

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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HammerDB CLI 101

HammerDB

As the workflow in the CLI and GUI are the same we will show equivalent commands side by side to help you quickly get up to speed on using the CLI in both interactive and scripted scenarios. This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. Help and Navigation.

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Improving The Performance Of An Online Store (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

Every front-end developer is chasing the same holy grail of performance: green scores in Google Page Speed. Real-life performance for your users and how the website “feels” when you’re using it should not be discounted, even if it costs you a point or two in Page Speed (otherwise, we would all just have a search bar and unstyled text).

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Making Windows Slower Part 1: File Access

Randon ASCII

Have you ever wanted to make these operations even slower? This weeks’ blog post covers a technique you can use to make all file operations on Windows run at one tenth their normal speed (or slower), in a way that will be untraceable for most users! The source code for the C# FileSystemWatcher class can be found here.