The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions? Register now for free and experience the seamless operation of your databases across multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud systems. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. TB)) for storage of database tablespaces and logging.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. PostgreSQL’s Tuneable Parameters. shared_buffer.

Tuning 57

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 57

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.

Monitoring 100

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 100

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. No more hassles of benchmarking and tuning algorithms or building and maintaining infrastructure for vector search.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

Percona XtraBackup performs crash recovery on the files to make a consistent, usable database again. The redo apply phase wouldn’t make the database consistent with respect to a transaction. Old design (until Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-27): New design (from Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28) ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd

Cache 87

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 87

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

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 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. Make sure you design the data types correctly while planning for the future growth of the table.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

The device ecosystem is rich with partners ranging from Silicon-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers, Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors. Solving the above problems could help Netflix and our Partners save time and money during the entire lifecycle of device design, build, test, and certification.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. The design space. in the TPC-H Benchmark Standard for details of the queries). InS does now offer an NVMe variant too, and the authors perform limited testing on that as well.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Server caches help lower the latency between a Frontend and Backend; since key-value databases are faster than traditional relational SQL databases, it will significantly increase an API’s response time.

Cache 126

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 126

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 98

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 98

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Redis Data Types and Structures The design of Redis’s data structures emphasizes versatility. It is designed to cache plain text values, offering fast read and write access to frequently accessed data. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Real User Monitoring (RUM) Pingdom New Relic (also backend, database and server health monitoring) Google Analytics mPulse. How to make your website faster. References.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Latency Mobile 40

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

Benchmarking 124

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 124

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Codrops Codrops features blogs with topics ranging from UI design and page animations to image formatting and general JavaScript practices. A List Apart A List Apart focuses on UX and branding from business and design-oriented perspectives. Topics include web design, security, web-based tools and workflows and more.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

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

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In designing a blockchain-friendly provenance mechanism, three aspects unique to the blockchain environment differentiate the problem from that of traditional database provenance: There are no higher-order data operators (e.g. join) whose semantics capture provenance in the form of input-output dependencies.

Blockchain 55

Blockchain Efficiency Systems Storage 55

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

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS. How do I choose which one to use?

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. This has far-reaching implications how future data systems and algorithms will be designed. Can machine learning-based data structures i.e. learned data structures replace traditional data structures?

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Last time around we looked at the DeathStarBench suite of microservices-based benchmark applications and learned that microservices systems can be especially latency sensitive, and that hotspots can propagate through a microservices architecture in interesting ways. ASPLOS’19. accuracy) and avoided 495 (84%) of them.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There was an excellent first benchmarking report of the Cluster GPU Instances by the folks at Cycle Computing - " A Couple More Nails in the Coffin of the Private Compute Cluster " The Top500 supercomputer list. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Amazon DynamoDB â??

AWS 67

AWS Cloud Benchmarking Storage 67

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

Cache 116

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 116

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). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks. Secrets, such as database credentials, API keys, SSL keys or encryption keys, need to be managed to protect them from discovery.

Open Source 249

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 249

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Use domain-driven design when creating new microservices by separating microservices via their underlying business functions.

Architecture 231

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 231

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. With ScaleGrid, users can effortlessly deploy hosting services for databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, and Greenplum Database.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130