HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be?

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For evidence, I refer you to the research that we recently published in which 62% of CISOs told us that container runtime environments have negatively impacted their ability to detect and manage software vulnerabilities. Application developers commonly leverage open-source software when building containerized applications.

Open Source 255

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 255

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

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

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. remove the dependency on the monolith after all testing is successful. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture 237

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 237

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 111

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 111

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

Testing 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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. Oracle Costs.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

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). Basic Benchmarking Concepts. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. Database benchmarking in parallel.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

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 96

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 96

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.

Cache 98

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 98

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. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

Performance 102

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 102

High Scalability

AUGUST 24, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. Try out their platform. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ).

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

OCTOBER 27, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. Try out their platform. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ).

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. Try out their platform. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ).

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications. Try out their platform. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ).

Education 100

Education DevOps Infrastructure Benchmarking 100

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 226

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 226

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests. This is generally referred to as “ partial page writes ” or “ torn pages.”

Database 115

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 115

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

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 77

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 77

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

Nonetheless, operating Lambda functions comes with its own unique challenges and—especially when used within enterprise stacks—the operational requirements are the same as for any other piece of software. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

Lambda 188

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 188

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. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. ibd in the test directory. For example, mysql datadir/test/t1.ibd. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd CREATE TABLE test.t1(a

Cache 84

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 84

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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. I.e. if system A generated 1.5X Why would this be the case?

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. The scope and complexity of our software systems continue to increase as Netflix grows. What’s next?

Infrastructure 233

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 233

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. sec) db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb3 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text tinytext); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Obviously, the key phrase there is ‘fully loaded’ A lot of that time is behind the scenes scripts, tracking software, advertisements, etc. It is typically reduced via server-side optimizations, such as enabling caching and database indexes. How do you test your site against the best practices? seconds on mobile.

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

MySQL triggers are a powerful tool for database administrators and developers, enabling them to automate tasks, enforce data consistency, and respond to events within the database seamlessly. A Trigger in MySQL is a database object that plays a pivotal role in database management.

Cache 59

Cache Database Games Healthcare 59

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

The protections are hardware implemented and cannot be forged in software. The basic question here is whether it is practical to support a large-scale C-language software stack with strong pointer-based protection… with only modest changes to existing C code-bases and with reasonable performance cost. slower to 9.8%

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

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. As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. Key findings.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

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. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. All modern browsers are fast, Chromium and Safari/WebKit included. Lower is better.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

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. As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. But I'm not completely sure.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I really wanted to go beyond these quick gut reactions that I’ve seen so much of online, so I tried using ChatGPT for a few weeks to help me implement a hobby software project and took notes on what I found interesting. or “ha look how incompetent it is … it couldn’t even get my simple question right!” using “22” for the year 2022).

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

IO River

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Let's break down this Security Flywheel into its core components: ‍Research, Close Breaches, and Test. But hold your horses—before switching them to "block" mode, it's crucial to test them extensively. After you've researched, closed breaches, and tested, you start all over again. It's an ongoing, iterative process.

Traffic 52

Traffic Network Logistics Architecture 52