HammerDB

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). This post explains why HammerDB made the language decisions it made to make it the best performing and most usable database benchmarking software.

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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.”

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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

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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> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

If you haven’t done so already, providing a testing environment for developers to easily test their functions with AWS solves most of these challenges and makes the required tooling similar to what’s required for operating microservices. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings.

Performance 75

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

If you haven’t done so already, providing a testing environment for developers to easily test their functions with AWS solves most of these challenges and makes the required tooling similar to what’s required for operating microservices. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

CLI tools The Cassandra systems were EC2 virtual machine (Xen) instances. Note that Ubuntu also has a frame to show entry into vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object). There's also a test and println() in the loop to, hopefully, convince the compiler not to optimize-out an otherwise empty loop. This will slow this test a little.)

Speed 40

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this post I'll look at the Linux kernel page table isolation (KPTI) patches that workaround Meltdown: what overheads to expect, and ways to tune them. Much of my testing was on Linux 4.14.11 I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings.

Performance 40

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HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . HammerDB difference from Sysbench.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Pull-the-plug ​​ power ​​ outage testing ​​ Power outage testing ​​ is ​​ a fundamental and critical part of the administrator’s data safety and integrity requirements. ​​ Incorrect configurations lead to data loss.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. The BPool consumes the majority of the user mode address space leaving only a few 100 MB of the virtual address range free for thread stacks, DLLs, and other activities. Ensure that the filter driver is Microsoft SQL Server?compliant.

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