Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. can enhance Redis by handling management tasks, backups, and scalability, facilitating global reach and easy cloud integration for global businesses.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

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

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

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. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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 ? These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. One of the key benefits of using PostgreSQL is its reliability, scalability, and performance. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance.

Cache 116

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 116

Scalegrid

MARCH 22, 2024

This process thoroughly assesses factors like cost-effectiveness, security measures, control levels, scalability options, customization possibilities, performance standards, and availability expectations. Ready to take your database management to the next level with ScaleGrid’s cutting-edge solutions?

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Government Innovation 130

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

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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

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. Strategic allocation of these resources plays a crucial role in achieving scalability, cost savings, improved performance, and staying ahead of advancements in the field.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. With multiverse databases, each user sees a consistent “parallel universe” database containing only the data that user is allowed to see.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

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 101

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 101

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

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

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. Ensures platform is flexible and scalable to handle peaks by sending alerts to IT management. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system.

Infrastructure 208

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 208

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. For storage, FIO is generally used.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

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. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters. Try it today!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

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. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters. Try it today!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters. Try it today!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. The geolocation database or API detects location, proxy and other >20 parameters. Try it today!

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

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 SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 240

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 240

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. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 126

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 126

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

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. Results for Percona Server for MySQL 8.0

Cache 104

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 104

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. The next challenge was to stream large amounts of traces via a scalable data processing platform. Mantis is our go-to platform for processing operational data at Netflix.

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

MrTonyD : I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). JavaScript benchmark. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading).

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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

JULY 19, 2023

The above ULID plugin came as an idea from a post by Shopify , specifically #6, that mentioned moving to ULID over UUID for better sequential INSERTs in their MySQL databases. Look for part two, where we benchmark ULID in MySQL! spolier* It’s better!) Try Percona Distribution for MySQL today!

C++ 82

C++ Servers Benchmarking Best Practices 82

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

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

Open Source 83

Open Source Programming Database Servers 83

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.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A simple sysbench benchmark on MySQL shows an overhead between six and 10 percent on CPU-bound systems when running perf with the default sampling frequency of 4000 Hz. Manual flame graphs collection Although the tool is excellent and automatically provides flame graphs, we don’t have much control over tuning the selected profiler.

Code 112

Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 112

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

One of the common ways to classify database workloads is whether it is “read intensive” or “write intensive”. Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability.

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47

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

C++ 52

C++ Benchmarking Metrics Database 52

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

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

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 experimental results focus on six main areas of comparison: query restrictions system initialisation time query performance cost data compatibility with other systems scalability.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76