Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. 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.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 102

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. It collects various statistics data such as query statistics, query plan, SQL comments, and other performance insights. This allows a user to drill down into the performance of queries.

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DZone

APRIL 26, 2022

However, using the CPU and GPU resources simultaneously can improve the performance of an application. pomriq MRI reconstruction benchmark is written in C and parallelized using OpenMP. We’ll also use Intel VTune™ Profiler to measure CPU and GPU utilization and analyze performance. The SPEC ACCEL 514.pomriq

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Programming Efficiency Benchmarking C++ 130

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

I believe that all optimizing C/C++ compilers know how to pull this trick and it is generally beneficial irrespective of the processor’s architecture. In concrete terms, here is the C code to compute the remainder of the division by some fixed divisor d : uint32_t d =. ; // your divisor > 0. if ( ( i % 3 ) = = 0 ).

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C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Predicting application performance is a difficult art, but an important one when choosing the target deployment environment. In this blog, we aim to call out some key considerations when trying to assess MySQL performance for your application. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload.

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Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

"How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance poverty line for your site. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

In our final post, we will put them head-to-head in a detailed feature comparison and compare the results of PgBouncer vs. Pgpool-II performance for your PostgreSQL hosting ! Performance Testing. All of the PostgreSQL benchmark tests were run under the following conditions: Initialized pgbench using a scale factor of 100.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. With this feature Oracle generates a wealth of performance data that can be reviewed once the test is complete.

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Benchmarking Monitoring Performance C++ 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

compared to previous releases is that the workload names have changed from TPC-C and TPC-H to TPROC-C and TPROC-H respectively and therefore a key question is how are the v4.0 The simple answer is nothing, the workloads are exactly the same workloads derived from the TPC-C and TPC-H specifications and HammerDB v4.0

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

HammerDB

JUNE 22, 2023

Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new Jobs on-disk database /opt/HammerDB-4.8/DATA/hammer.db On Windows it will look for TEMP, TMP, TMPDIR or finally C: for example, on Linux. In this example, we will run a PostgreSQL TPROC-C autopilot workload to generate some jobs to analyse.

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Benchmarking C++ Virtualization Database 57

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unfortunately, the performance in benchmarks is almost the same as for 4KB pages. Please check out the Why Linux HugePages are Super Important for Database Servers: A Case with PostgreSQL blog post for more information. Setup I recommend starting with 2MB huge pages because it’s trivial to set up.

C++ 95

C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 95

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. Derived Workloads.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of PostgreSQL performance tuning and establish some basic guidelines for setting database parameters to enhance the performance of your PostgreSQL database, based on the workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

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Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

by @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis to provide accelerated load performance for both SQL Server TPROC-C and TPROC-H schemas. Using BCP our TPROC-C build now completed almost 3X faster and tests on TPROC-H showed similar results. This post provides an introduction to the new feature added to HammerDB v4.9

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Servers C++ Benchmarking Virtualization 62

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “ close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. These, let’s call them metal languages , include FORTRAN (introduced in 1957), C (1972), and C++ (1985). As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

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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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

TL&DR : Depending on the workload, the thread pool plugin can cause serious performance drops. In each situation, I’ve seen huge drops in the performance where the QPS were going to almost zero. After removing the thread pool plugin from the clusters, the performance was more steady, even when running these queries.

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Benchmarking Servers Tuning C++ 82

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., That ‘reasonable’ performance cost is a 6.8% And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. ASPLOS’19. CHERI implementation.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

How can I demonstrate the business value of performance to people in my organization?" If you've ever asked yourself any of these questions, then you could find the answers in identifying and understanding the performance plateau for your site. What is the "performance plateau"? The concept of the performance plateau isn't new.

Performance 52

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 52

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

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. To benchmark a database we introduce the concept of a Virtual User.

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Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Introducing the PostgreSQL performance metrics viewer. HammerDB included a graphical performance metrics view for the Oracle database only. This enables the user to compare and contrast performance across different benchmark scenarios. usr/bin/install -c -m 644./pg_stat_statements--1.4.sql./pg_stat_statements--1.8--1.9.sql./pg_stat_statements--1.7--1.8.sql./pg_stat_statements--1.6--1.7.sql./pg_stat_statements--1.5--1.6.sql./pg_stat_statements--1.4--1.5.sql.

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Metrics Benchmarking C++ Database 62

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Browser Networking. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. High Performance Websites.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions have evolved in recent years, and organizations now have plenty of options to choose from when selecting the right tools for their needs. APM solutions track key software application performance metrics using monitoring software and telemetry data. Dynatrace news.

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Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

By getting rid of the major source of closure allocations in the pipeline, we’ve managed to get another five-fold increase in pipeline execution performance, as well as the complete removal of closure-related Gen 0 garbage creation. Starting with.NET 5, we can mark the lambda as static with C# 9. <>9__0_1 ?? (<>c.<>9__0_1

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Lambda C++ Benchmarking Code 98

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 8, 2021

It's a pretty common need in real life; it's simple to describe, and it's quite easy to solve with reasonable performance using a cursor-based solution. When Peter sends me a puzzle, I typically respond with a suggested solution, and he usually comes up with a better-performing, brilliant solution. L0 AS ( SELECT 1 AS c.

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C++ Code Benchmarking Performance 133

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. The storage device has performance characteristics pretty similar to an AWS gp2 EBS volume of about 330 GB in size. TPC-C on MyRocks.

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Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 55

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

In this blog, we will establish basic guidelines for setting PostgreSQL database parameters to improve database performance according to workload. Bear in mind that while optimizing PostgreSQL server configuration improves performance, a database developer must also be diligent when writing queries for the application. shared_buffer.

Tuning 54

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 54

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kubernetes limitations In Linux, by default, performance system events can’t be collected by unprivileged users. This restricts the ability of running profilers to diagnose a performance issue from inside the container. In regular environments, this can be easily worked around by running the profiler with a sudo privilege.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 106

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As a benchmark, I am going to compute a linear congruential generator (basically a recursive linear function with a remainder thrown in), using these three approaches, plus the naive one. There is no silver bullet but a simple C function can beat a state-of-the-art optimizing compiler. uint32_t indirectmod64 ( uint32_t a ) {.

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Benchmarking C++ Games Code 138

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

There are a wide range of tools and extensions for every conceivable scenario, like performance profiling, auditing, etc. Objective C. Oracle Ease of Use. PostgreSQL community is one of the most active open source communities. SolarisUnix. Supported Languages. JavaScript. Visual Basic.Net. JavaScript (Node.js).

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Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The recently revealed [Meltdown and Spectre] bugs are not just extraordinary issues of security, but also performance. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen. Some older kernels have the KAISER patches for Meltdown, and so far the performance overheads look similar.

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

These strange questions came to the fore back in 2014 when Netflix was switching services from CentOS Linux to Ubuntu, and I helped debug several weird performance issues including one I'll describe here. A quick check of basic performance statistics showed over 30% higher CPU consumption. How would you _time_ time?

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Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. Logging Waits.

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

n0derunner

MARCH 7, 2019

I use the “built in” benchmark pgbench to run a simple set of queries. Since I am interested in only the gains from hugepages I chose to use the “-S” parameter to pgbench which means perform only the “select” statements. pgbench -c 10 -S -T 600 -P 1 p gbench. shared_buffers = 16384MB.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 23, 2019

Today’s paper introduces Zippads , which compared to a state of the art compressed memory hierarchy is able to achieve a 1.63x higher compression ratio and improve performance by 17%. Consider a B-Tree node from the B-tree Java benchmark: Uncompressed, it’s memory layout looks like (a) below. ” The big idea. Evaluation.

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Cache Benchmarking Hardware Java 61

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. Front-End Performance Checklist 2021. This guide has been kindly supported by our friends at LogRocket , a service that combines frontend performance monitoring , session replay, and product analytics to help you build better customer experiences. Web performance is a tricky beast, isn’t it?

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