The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

For the rest of us, if you really need that extra performance (maybe what you get out-of-the-box or with minimal tuning is good enough for your use case) then you can upgrade hardware and/or pay for a commercial license of a tuned distributed (RHEL). A second takeaway is this: security has a cost! Measuring the kernel. Headline results.

Performance 108

Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. on identical hardware, with identical settings, but at different load levels.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

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