Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 54

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 54

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. This shift requires infrastructure monitoring to ensure all your components work together across applications, operating systems, storage, servers, virtualization, and more.

Infrastructure 208

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 208

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads. Storage is a critical aspect to consider when working with cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 107

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 107

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. Some servers may need a few GBs of RAM, while others may need hundreds of GBs or even terabytes of RAM. Benchmark before you decide. I hope this helps!

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

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

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the digital age, data management has transformed from locally hosted servers to cloud solutions. All the tedious tasks such as storage, backups, and configuration are managed by an attentive crew so that you can concentrate on making your vacation special. Make sure to read our extensive article on DBaaS Pros and Cons !

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

Tuning 136

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 136

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. 0.42 %sys 9.52

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Migrating an on-premises SQL Server instance to an Azure Virtual Machine (VM) is a common method to migrate to Azure. IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Compute optimized – High CPU-to-memory ration, medium traffic web servers and application servers.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

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. However, simply deploying a monitoring tool is not enough; you need to know which Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor to gain insights into your MySQL server’s health and performance.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

SQL Performance

AUGUST 27, 2019

On August 7, 2019, AMD finally unveiled their new 7nm EPYC 7002 Series of server processors, formerly code-named "Rome" at the AMD EPYC Horizon Event in San Francisco. This is the second generation EPYC server processor that uses the same Zen 2 architecture as the AMD Ryzen 3000 Series desktop processors.

Servers 52

Servers Benchmarking Virtualization Architecture 52

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. Planning for resources of a PMM Server host instance can be tricky because the numbers can change depending on the DB instances being monitored by PMM. 25 Bytes, or you should plan storage roughly between 500 GB – one TB for a default 30 day retention period.

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Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 101

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. But to be fair, we also have to process the messages on the server before we can consider the messaging case to be complete.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

The data is internally inconsistent because the server concurrently modifies the data files while they are being copied. The changes done by an uncommitted transaction can be flushed or written to the redo log by the server. Initializing a DD engine and the cache adds complexity and other server dependencies.

Cache 87

Cache Benchmarking Servers Design 87

Percona

DECEMBER 23, 2022

I wrote this post on MyRocks because I believe it is the most interesting new MySQL storage engine to have appeared over the last few years. The use case is the TPC-C benchmark but executed not on a high-end server but on a lower-spec virtual machine that is I/O limited like for example, with AWS EBS volumes. Conclusion.

Storage 56

Storage Cache C++ Virtualization 56

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. While MySQL can handle large data sets, it is always recommended to keep only the used data in the databases, as this will make data access more efficient, and also will help to save costs on storage and backups. MyRocks is shipped in Percona Server for MySQL.

Open Source 90

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 90

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Client Side Rendering, Server Side Rendering And Jamstack. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS.

Cache 125

Cache Performance Servers Social Media 125

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. SQL Server DELAYED_DURABILITY. Logging Waits.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Load balancing : Requests are evenly distributed across multiple database servers, ensuring the system remains operational even if one server fails. Automated failover : To keep the database operational and minimize downtime, it automatically switches to a backup server if the primary server fails.

Availability 109

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 109

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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

replacing Paxos with Raft), or they could be shims over external storage systems. A minimal Loglet needs to provide totally ordered, durable storage via the shared log API. In Facebook’s implementation of NativeLoglet, seal simply sets a bit on a quorum of servers. Reconfiguration. Delos in production.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 118

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 118

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Reduced Resource Usage Optimizing resource-intensive queries and configurations can lead to a reduced burden on your server. An improperly configured server may not allocate sufficient resources or be optimized for the specific workload. Detecting and optimizing slow queries is an important step in enhancing database performance.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Figure 1: CPU-Z Benchmark Results for LS16v2. Azure Lsv2 Details.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

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. more transactions than system B in the fully audited benchmark then the HammerDB result was also 1.5X I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics). As you can imagine, this comes with very real storage costs. starting and finishing a method).

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Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 296

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. Ever since AMD released their EPYC CPU for servers I wanted to test it, but I did not have the opportunity until recently, when Packet.net started offering bare metal servers for a reasonable price.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

For example, in a server cluster, multiple servers are used to host the same application so that if one server fails, the application can continue to run on the other servers. Load balancing: Traffic is distributed across multiple servers to prevent any one component from becoming overloaded.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Analyzing read/write workload by counts. Analyzing Read/Write Workload by Response Time.

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Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 47