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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

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. For storage, FIO is generally used.

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The Importance of Selecting the Proper Azure VM Size

SQL Performance

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. The various types are: General purpose – Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio, small to medium databases. Memory optimized – High memory-to-CPU ratio, relational database servers, medium to large caches, and in-memory analytics.

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Why MySQL Could Be Slow With Large Tables

Percona

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. You can refer to the documentation for further details. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

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HammerDB v4.0 New Features Pt1: TPROC-C & TPROC-H

HammerDB

First of all it has always been clear in the HammerDB documentation that the TPROC-C/TPC-C and TPROC-H/TPC-H workloads have not been ‘real’ audited and published TPC results instead providing a tool to run workloads based on these specifications.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Jamstack is popular with documentation sites that usually compile code to HTML files and host them on the CDN. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

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Maximizing Performance of AWS RDS for MySQL with Dedicated Log Volumes

Percona

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.

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The Ultimate Guide to Database High Availability

Percona

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.”