Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 135

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 135

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

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

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. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. PMM monitors the MySQL uptime: show global status like 'uptime'; Indicates the amount of time (seconds) the MySQL server has been running since the last restart.

Performance 105

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 105

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 99

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 99

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 125

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 125

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. 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.

Cache 85

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 85

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

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) We don't use the _real_ word "observable" since that implies the wrong thing. - What observability does that database have? For example, benchmarks. Observability: The ability to observe. Observe-ability.

Benchmarking 117

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 117

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. If you are an experienced DevOps Engineer who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and improve, we might just be the place for you! The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and developers to join its research panel. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. DevOps Engineer : At Kinsta , we set out to create the best managed hosting platform in the world. Who's Hiring? Apply here.

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

HammerDB

APRIL 4, 2023

Hammerpost is a HammerDB contribution project from @dineshkumar02 that wraps HammerDB with an automated framework to rapidly prototype multiple combinations of database parameters to find the optimal configuration for any specific environment. Firstly, we will check that we can start our database. remote: Enumerating objects: 38, done.

Benchmarking 84

Benchmarking Database Metrics Code 84

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In these blogs, we dove deep into how the frameworks work, their setup requirements, pros and cons, and how they performed in standby server tests, primary server tests and network isolation tests (split brain scenario) to help you determine the best framework to improve the uptime for your PostgreSQL-powered applications.

Availability 187

Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

So in 1988 I joined the Sun sales force and became a Systems Engineer (nowadays we would say Solutions Architect). I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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

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. Example (using the employee sample DB ): Suppose we have the following schema: db1 employees> show create table employeesG 1.

Open Source 88

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 88

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

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.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

From an engineering perspective this may be all that you need to know. 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.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Back in 2017 the engineering team at Facebook had a problem. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers. NativeLoglet implements seal by setting a bit on a quorum of servers. Once the database was restored to five replicas, we reconfigured back. Every little helps!

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

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.

C++ 62

C++ Virtualization Database Benchmarking 62

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. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

In computer engineering we use it to describe the tools, data sources, and methods for understanding (observing!) Means: What tools exist that only read state?) - What observability does that database have? For example, benchmarks. If they trusted me with a login to their production servers, I could help them a lot quicker.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 40

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

HammerDB

DECEMBER 20, 2018

However as other databases were added they all record TPM in a slightly different way so it wasn’t possible to compare TPM between different database for example Oracle and SQL Server. Nevertheless because it comes from the schema itself that means that NOPM can be used to compare different databases whereas TPM cannot.

Metrics 40

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Database 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. which allows fast deployment times and rapid scalability.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

HammerDB

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For example on Windows an example of opening a new database. Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new SQLite on-disk database C:/Users/Hdb/AppData/Local/Temp/hammer.DB If disabled, the SQLite repository database is not opened, and it is not possible to query any jobs related data.

Virtualization 57

Virtualization C++ Storage Database 57

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Kalpesh Patel , an Engineer, who for Egnyte from home. Application Servers. Apache FTP server. Native desktop and server hosted clients that allow both interactive as well as hybrid sync access to the entire namespace. Egnyte is a Secure Content Platform built specifically for businesses.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

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. This server is spending about a third of its CPU cycles just checking the time! What on Earth is Ubuntu doing that results in 30% higher CPU time!?

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Many thanks to the engineers working hard to develop workarounds to these processor bugs. I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. The patches that workaround Meltdown introduce the largest kernel performance regressions I've ever seen.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 75

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

SQL Injection involves inserting malicious SQL queries into an input field, tricking the database into revealing sensitive information.Imagine a login page. A horde of compromised computers overwhelms a server, rendering it incapable of handling legitimate requests.In Both tools are essential, but for different tasks.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52

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. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. .

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40