HammerDB

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

cloud based usage led to the development of a HammerDB HTTP based web service interface with output data stored in a SQLite database repository. ws_port defines on which port to start the HTTP service, whilst sqlite_db sets the location of the SQLite repository database. hammerdbws. HammerDB Web Service v4.3

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HammerDB

MARCH 25, 2023

When you list the HammerDB directory you can now see a directory called “scripts” This directory contains CLI scripts to build, run, delete and query TPROC-C and TPROC-H workloads against all databases. If HammerDB is running on a separate system from the database under test then you should modify this value accordingly.

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C++ Virtualization Benchmarking Database 83

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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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. Microsoft has helped simplify things by creating multiple types of virtual machines. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, after a running a test it would be ideal to have a repository where we could verify the configuration of the workload that was run, the results and any timing or transaction count data generated to bring all the log output into a central location. For example on Windows an example of opening a new database. HammerDB v4.6

Virtualization 57

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Vuser 1:1 Active Virtual Users configured Vuser 1:TEST RESULT : System achieved 39945 NOPM from 92893 SQL Server TPM Vuser 1:Gathering timing data from Active Virtual Users. Running this script returns output as follows using the Python loop to drive HammerDB. Vuser 2:FINISHED SUCCESS Vuser 1:Calculating timings.

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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

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. This was both expensive and time consuming to configure. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2019

HammerDB already has 2 interfaces with which to interface with the commands to build and test databases using the GUI interface or CLI. From HammerDB version 3.2 there is an additional interface that enables HammerDB to run as Web Service. Using a browser to navigate to that port will show the help screen.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

CHERI adds a new hardware data type for strongly protected C-language pointers, the CHERI capability (the evaluation uses an FPGA-based implementation). If any violation is detected the tag bit is cleared, and the data can no longer be interpreted as a capability. For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used.

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Virtual consensus in Delos , Balakrishnan et al. If you think of this a bit like mapping memory addresses to data in memory, then another parallel comes to mind: the virtual address space. We propose the novel abstraction of a virtual shared log (or VirtualLog). Facebook, Inc. ), OSDI’2020. Delos in production.

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Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. More in the following sub-section.)

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. What is workload in cloud computing? This trend features running multiple distinct variants simultaneously, each relying on services delivered by various vendors.

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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.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. A client benefits from a pooled connection only if it connects to a child which has previously served a connection for this database+user combination. PgBouncer allows limiting connections per-pool, per-database, per-user or per-client. Throughput Benchmark.

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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

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). This helps to minimise locking allowing multiple sessions to access the same data at the same time. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

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HammerDB

JULY 6, 2023

In this example, we will use the CLI to run TPROC-C on a MariaDB database to illustrate the concepts. This way is typically the fastest way to determine the maximum throughput of a database with minimal configuration, and over time has been proven to show the same performance ratios between systems as a well configured fixed throughput setup.

Virtualization 57

Virtualization C++ Database Code 57

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Unfortunately, container security is much more difficult to achieve than security for more traditional compute platforms, such as virtual machines or bare metal hosts. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Why is container security tricky?

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 243

HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The TPC publishes an official Docker image on Docker Hub to enable the rapid deployment and testing of databases with HammerDB. This image includes example scripts to build schemas and test your databases with a single command. hammerdb>librarycheck Checking database library for Oracle Success. Database Configuration.

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So now lets see what we get in performance mode, an almost 32% improvement (and 53% higher than the published benchmarks). ./bin/pgbench

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server. MySQL (B) 2517529 2610323 389048 5516900 194140 11523.48

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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.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

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Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. Both of these Intel processors are special bespoke models that are not in the Intel ARK database. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Figure 2: Microsoft Project Olympus.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management.

Cache 62

Cache Database Games Healthcare 62

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

When using Lambda, you might soon end up using more serverless offerings, like databases, which makes emulating the same environment locally even harder. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 9, 2020

may not be directly comparable with the results from previous releases for your database. The reason for these changes is that over time for some databases more advanced features or drivers have been introduced that improve performance since the time that the original HammerDB transactions or interfaces were written. From HammerDB v4.0

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HammerDB

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

However if you have downloaded the source code and are looking to add features or make modifications such as adding new databases you may be wondering once you have the source code where to start. However HammerDB will not be able to connect to a database yet and the librarycheck command included with the CLI gives an indication why.

Architecture 40

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

When using Lambda, you might soon end up using more serverless offerings, like databases, which makes emulating the same environment locally even harder. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

This post mines publicly available data on the pace of compatibility fixes and feature additions to assess the claim. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. Converging Views.

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. As is exactly the same with PostgreSQL for system choice a 2 socket system is optimal for MySQL OLTP performance.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. Plotting the percent performance loss vs syscall rate per CPU, for my microbenchmark: Applications that have high syscall rates include proxies, databases, and others that do lots of tiny I/O.

Performance 40

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 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? ​​ The same formula can later be used to ​​ examine ​​ the ​​ data for damage.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. Consistency When completed, a transaction must leave all data in a consistent state.

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