HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. Selecting the appropriate index type, creating composite indexes, and regularly analyzing and reindexing the database can substantially improve query speed. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Reads and writes to your Primary, and even reads from Slave-1 will work at SSD speed. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. This technique is referred to as ‘slowing down the master to speed up the slaves’ and is explained in J-F Gagne’s blog. Amazon RDS.

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AWS Latency Performance Benchmarking 183

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Query performance Query performance is a key performance indicator (KPI) in MySQL, as it measures the efficiency and speed of query execution. There are multiple tables MySQL internal system manages that come in handy, identifying the inefficient indexes, to name a few: sys.schema_unused_indexes, and information_schema.index_statistics.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 107

Percona

OCTOBER 12, 2023

An example of a flame graph can be found below: Each box is a function in the stack, and wider boxes mean more time the system was busy on CPU on these functions. Kubernetes limitations In Linux, by default, performance system events can’t be collected by unprivileged users.

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Code Tuning C++ Benchmarking 113

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The authors selected a set of diverse application workloads, as shown in the table below, and analysed their execution to find out the system call frequency and total execution time. A micro-benchmark suite, LEBench was then built around tee system calls responsible for most of the time spent in the kernel.

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Performance Benchmarking Tuning Hardware 108

HammerDB

APRIL 27, 2021

As the workflow in the CLI and GUI are the same we will show equivalent commands side by side to help you quickly get up to speed on using the CLI in both interactive and scripted scenarios. This will show the benchmark options dialog. Benchmark Options. and benchmark set with the bm argument. Help and Navigation.

Virtualization 73

Virtualization Benchmarking Database Operating System 73

Brendan Gregg

MAY 22, 2021

(Means: Let me look at the system without changing it.) _Experimental_ tools change the state of the system to understand it. For example, benchmarks. As an analogy, a car's dashboard is a collection of observability tools that let you understand how the car is operating (speed, rpm, temperature).

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Metrics Speed Database 40

Tasktop

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They chose Planview Tasktop Viz® to measure the flow of value through their systems and guide their agile transformation. To start, the leaders decided to use Flow Time to benchmark the team’s performance. This is a measure of work in progress (WIP) in the value stream. The Results: Customer Satisfaction Soars While Spend Declines .

Metrics 52

Metrics Benchmarking Efficiency Speed 52

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 126

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 126

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced User Experience Whether you operate an e-commerce platform, a content management system, or any other application reliant on MySQL, users will notice and appreciate the improved speed and responsiveness. Resource contention emerges when multiple database operations vie for the same system resources simultaneously.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

It ranks the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers based on their performance as measured by the Linpack benchmark. For example, PDC’s Beskow system has 11 cabinets, 515 blades, 2,060 compute nodes, and a total of 67,456 cores. This is also commonly known as “double precision” on many computer systems. Source: [link].

Energy 40

Energy Benchmarking Efficiency Website 40

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. How can IT teams deliver system availability under peak loads that will satisfy customers?

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Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 181

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We’ll note how some of the Linux parameter settings used OS tuning may vary according to different system types: physical, virtual or cloud. How to Restore MySQL Logical Backup at Maximum Speed. In this benchmark, I discovered some interesting discrepancies in performance between AMD and Intel CPUs when running under systemd.

Database 40

Database Tuning Performance AWS 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. In summary, if you want to increase the performance of your application, you can use server caches to speed up your APIs, but if you want to persist your app state, you should use the local storage cache.

Performance 126

Performance Cache Servers Social Media 126

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 52

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 52

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This has far-reaching implications how future data systems and algorithms will be designed. They demonstrated that neural nets based learned index outperforms cache-optimized B-Tree index by up to 70% in speed while saving an order-of-magnitude in memory. We can also use machine learning based models to replace traditional hash-maps.

Artificial Intelligence 40

Artificial Intelligence Hardware Google Benchmarking 40

DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One, by researching on the Internet; Two, by developing small programs and benchmarking. They still will win for mission-critical or real-time systems, which need performance over these parameters. Considering all aspects and needs of current enterprise development, it is C++ and Java which outscore the other in terms of speed.

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Java C++ Benchmarking Programming 207

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 56

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 56

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. High data availability is achieved.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Microbenchmark os::javaTimeMillis() on both systems. Measuring the speed of time Is there already a microbenchmark for os::javaTimeMillis()? Running this on the two systems saw similar results. Try changing the kernel clocksource.

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

list of those who are making a significant impact on speeding up the web today. Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.)

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

Worse yet, once the work is batched they insert user research that should have been done to inform the original work effort to what the real benchmark (MVP) should be. If you speed up, you’ll likely through off your car’s alignment and loosen up some other critical parts. Landscapes And Lugnuts. Further Reading.

Design 93

Design Logistics Strategy Benchmarking 93

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective.

Open Source 249

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 249

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

These compiled systems for letters and symbols, which are representations of sounds and information, get a lot of use and are a large part of graphic communication. Fast forward to the early 1960s, phototypesetting systems appeared. Instead, we need to address multiple factors within the design system. Large preview ).

Performance 111

Performance Design Best Practices Testing 111

VoltDB

JUNE 1, 2017

Telcos and Fortune 500 corporations used to spend years defining custom systems, down to the last cable. These systems were designed to have a lifetime of half a decade or more, and rapidly changing hardware meant that the initial deployment had to be sized for 5-7 years out. The “Public Private Cloud” folks.

Hardware 40

Hardware Latency Virtualization Cloud 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

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 . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

This post is targeted towards the questions most often asked by non-technical management who want to get up to speed on what HammerDB is (what it isn’t) and how it can benefit their organization. HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. What is HammerDB? Why HammerDB was developed. HammerDB Licensing.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. Data collected on page load events, for example, can include navigation start (when performance begins to be measured), request start (right before the user makes a request from the server), and speed index metrics (measure page load speed). RUM generates a lot of data.

Best Practices 174

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 174

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. I recently wrote a blog post for a web designer client about page speed and why it matters. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed.

Website 110

Website Speed Mobile Design 110

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Nowadays, solid-state drives (SSDs) or non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drives are preferred over traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) for database servers due to their faster read and write speeds, lower latency, and improved reliability. Operating system Linux is the most common operating system for high-performance MySQL servers.

Performance 129

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 129

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Simply put, it’s the set of computational tasks that cloud systems perform, such as hosting databases, enabling collaboration tools, or running compute-intensive algorithms. Such demanding use cases place a great value on systems capable of fast and reliable execution, a need that spans across various industry segments.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I suggest it’s long past time to move beyond C and SPEC benchmarks and our exclusive focus on “metal” languages. There are already standard benchmark suites for JavaScript performance in the browser, and we can include applications written in node.js (server-side JavaScript), Python web servers, and more.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Sometimes developers only care about speed. 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 that’s just a micro-benchmark and doesn’t tell you the whole story.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97