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.
HammerDB
MAY 6, 2021
Percona Live ONLINE, THE Open Source Database Conference, is taking place May 12-13, 2021. This year Steve Shaw will be presenting HammerDB: A better Way to Benchmark Your Open Source Database on Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 13.30-14.30
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The Morning Paper
NOVEMBER 8, 2020
USENIX is a nonprofit organisation committed to making content and research freely available – both conference proceedings and the recorded presentations of their events. Without in-person conferences this year, income is down and events are under threat. Once the database was restored to five replicas, we reconfigured back.
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.
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.
The Morning Paper
MAY 27, 2019
Microbenchmarks (MiBench) and the FreeBSD system call timing benchmarks show modest performance impact in some cases, and performance improvements in others (3.4% For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used. The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. slower to 9.8% faster for system calls).
Brendan Gregg
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I happened to be speaking at a technical confering while still debugging this, and mentioned what I was working on to a processor engineer.
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