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

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Over last few years, we have seen several attempts to run data workload in the containers especially distributed big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Apache Storm [3] , and Apache Spark [4] [5] without any software modifications. Performance.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Compression: Compression is the process of restructuring the data by changing its encoding in order to store it in fewer bytes. With hardware being more powerful and cheaper, and the technology evolving, now it is easier than ever to manage large tables in MySQL. 1 mysql mysql 592K Dec 30 02:48 tb1.ibd ibd -rw-r --. ibd -rw-r --.

Open Source 88

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 88

The Morning Paper

MAY 12, 2019

An open-source benchmark suite for microservices and their hardware-software implications for cloud & edge systems Gan et al., A typical architecture diagram for one of these services looks like this: Suitably armed with a set of benchmark microservices applications, the investigation can begin! Hardware implications.

Open Source 61

Open Source Hardware Benchmarking Systems 61

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Limits of a lift-and-shift approach A traditional lift-and-shift approach, where teams migrate a monolithic application directly onto hardware hosted in the cloud, may seem like the logical first step toward application transformation. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 231

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 231

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Traditional self-managed ones give organizations full control over their database infrastructure, such as picking the software and scaling it up. These databases require significant time commitment along with necessary technical skills plus hardware & software costs, all of which are without dedicated team assistance.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 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

Daniel Lemire

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The division by a power of two ( / (2 N )) can be implemented as a right shift if we are working with unsigned integers, which compiles to single instruction: that is possible because the underlying hardware uses a base 2. We also published our benchmarks for research purposes. I make my benchmarking code available.

C++ 279

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Testing 279

Alex Russell

MARCH 9, 2024

Of course, it would be better from the OS vendor's perspective if everyone simply wrote all of the software for their proprietary platform, maximising OS feature differentiation. This adds powerfully to the usual moat-digger's weaponisation of consensus processes. native, OS-specific) platform and the hopefully weaker web platform.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Strategy Internet Internet 59

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 over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Dynatrace OneAgent deployment and life-cycle management are already widely considered to be industry benchmarks for reliability and efficiency. The /opt directory is typically used for deployment of additional software running on the Unix system. Dynatrace news.

Best Practices 196

Best Practices Storage Java Benchmarking 196

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

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. Gartner estimates that less than half of enterprise-generated data is now created and processed in data centers or the cloud.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. If a primary server fails, a backup server can take over and continue to serve requests.

Availability 107

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 107

HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. However, it is crucial that the benchmarking application does not have inherent bottlenecks that artificially limits the scalability of the database. Basic Benchmarking Concepts. Basic Benchmarking Concepts.

Programming 67

Programming Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 67

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

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. Helps media apps on the web save battery when doing video processing.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. Doing extensive benchmarks will be the subject of a future blog post. Failover is a manual process and may result in last-minute data loss. Learn more here!

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

What about short-lived processes, like a service restarting in a loop? As a Xen guest, this profile was gathered using perf(1) and the kernel's software cpu-clock soft interrupts, not the hardware NMI. Software-based clocksources could fix those issues and provide accurate monotonically-increasing time.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

A close monitoring of the hardware enthusiast community, including many of the most respected hardware analysts and reviewers paints an even more dire picture about Intel in the server processor space. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Example 1: ​​ Hardware failure (CPU board) Battery backup on the caching controller maintained the data. Important Always consult with your hardware manufacturer for proper stable media strategies. Most manufacturers' implementations immediately flush pending writes to physical disk during the restart operations.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Alex Russell

JANUARY 30, 2024

HTML, CSS, images, and fonts can all be parsed and run at near wire speeds on low-end hardware, but JavaScript is at least three times more expensive, byte-for-byte. Meanwhile, budget segment devices have finally started to see improvement ( as this series predicted ), thanks to hand-me-down architecture and process node improvements.

Performance 90

Performance Network Mobile Speed 90

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

DBCC Page Auditing DBCC page auditing is the process of executing common DBCC consistency checks as pages are read from disk. ​​ Obtain assistance from your I/O vendor ​​ if you ​​ encounter retries. ​​ Remote mirroring captures writes and duplicates them ​​ remotely.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

of PostgreSQL users are currently in the process of migrating to the RDBMS, according to the 2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report , an astounding percentage considering this is the 4th most popular database in the world. Software Update License & Support (annual). $0. In fact, PostgreSQL is so popular, 11.5% Oracle Enterprise Edition.

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

So, if we created an overview of all the things we have to keep in mind when improving performance — from the very start of the process until the final release of the website — what would that list look like? Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Micro-optimizations are great for keeping performance on track, but it’s critical to have clearly defined targets in mind — measurable goals that would influence any decisions made throughout the process. Also, as Patrick Meenan suggested, it’s worth to plan out a loading sequence and trade-offs during the design process.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Your Laptop has a filesystem used by hundreds of processes. It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. On prem data processing. Locks used for strong consistency across processes. Document store.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52