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Why you should benchmark your database using stored procedures

HammerDB

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

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).

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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.”

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ScyllaDB Trends – How Users Deploy The Real-Time Big Data Database

Scalegrid

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

David will also talk at the Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE) about Performance Engineering and Database Development at MongoDB. As well as we will have the Performance Testing in DevOps panel at the Load Testing and Benchmarking workshop where I would be one of the panelist.

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Redis vs Memcached in 2024

Scalegrid

On the other hand, an append-only file ensures data safety by recording every write operation that modifies the dataset, allowing for complete data reconstruction in the event of a restart. Advanced Redis Features Showdown Big data center concept, cloud database, server power station of the future. Data transfer technology.

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Real Time Oracle Performance Monitoring for Benchmarks

HammerDB

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. The user CPU is highlighted in green and the aim for maximum performance is for the top event to be CPU. .