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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

Database as a Service (DBaaS) providers are an alternative option that acts almost like going on a cruise ship: quick provisioning is facilitated by them, while scalability, support services, and flexibility benefit from pay-as-you-go models. They also come with some drawbacks—high costs and resources needed for successful management.

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How to maximize CPU performance for PostgreSQL 12.0 benchmarks on Linux

HammerDB

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 .

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

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.”

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10 tips for migrating from monolith to microservices

Dynatrace

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.

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

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. Derived Workloads.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

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. Benchmark before you decide. have been released since then with some major changes. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled. I hope this helps!

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Impact of Querying Table Information From information_schema

Percona

Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark. The percentage in degradation will vary depending on many factors {hardware, workload, number of tables, configuration, etc.}. Setup The setup consists of creating 10K tables with sysbench and adding 20 FKs to 20 tables.

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