Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

If you’re considering a database management system, understanding these benefits is crucial. DBMS enhances data security with encryption, implements various access controls, and enables improved data sharing and concurrent access, thus facilitating quick response to changes and maintaining consistent database accuracy.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 16, 2020

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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Percona

MAY 2, 2023

At the same time that I see database engineers relying on the tool, sites such as StackOverflow are banning ChatGPT. ChatGPT: The InnoDB buffer pool is used by MySQL to cache frequently accessed data in memory. If we expand the cache concept more, the buffer pool could be even less if the working set (hot data) is smaller.

Social Media 121

Social Media Database Servers Cache 121

CSS Wizardry

AUGUST 7, 2019

only to find that the resource they’re requesting isn’t in that PoP ’s cache. Database queries: Pages that require data from a database will incur a cost when searching over it. It’s vital that we understand just what TTFB can cover, and just how critical it can be to overall performance.

Latency 269

Latency Ecommerce Servers Mobile 269

n0derunner

DECEMBER 18, 2018

How to improve large DB read performance by 2X. a 10TB database with 20% hot data) we observe a 2X improvement in throughput for random access across the 2TB hot dataset. a 10TB database with 20% hot data) we observe a 2X improvement in throughput for random access across the 2TB hot dataset. Nutanix AOS 5.10

Performance 40

Performance Cache Hardware Storage 40

The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., Finally, we show that Seer can identify application level design bugs, and provide insights on how to better architect microservices to achieve predictable performance. ASPLOS’19.

Big Data 45

Big Data Cloud Performance Hardware 45

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Traditionally records in a database were stored as such: the data in a row was stored together for easy and fast retrieval. Combined with the rise of data warehouse workloads, where there is often significant redundancy in the values stored in columns, and database models based on column oriented storage took off.

Storage 87

Storage Hardware Cache C++ 87

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. Although there have been many blogs about adjusting MySQL variables for better performance since then, I think this topic deserves a blog update since the last update was a decade ago, and MySQL 5.7

Performance 125

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 125

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet. The Green Web Foundation maintains an ever-growing database of web hosts who are either wholly powered by renewable energy or are at least committed to being carbon neutral. Jack Lenox. Sustainable Web Design.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

KeyCDN

JANUARY 23, 2020

These acronyms, which stand for real user monitoring and application performance monitoring, are software monitoring processes essential to measuring and evaluating applications in many different areas. RUM gathers data from real life users to analyze application performance. What is application performance monitoring (APM)?

Strategy 72

Strategy Metrics Monitoring Servers 72

Percona

MAY 6, 2024

Since Valkey (a fork of Redis) is around the corner, I thought to write a short blog post about some of the configuration parts, mainly discussing how to dynamically change certain settings and persist those inside the configuration file.Disk persistenceLet me start with a very important setting, which is “SAVE,” that helps in performing (..)

Performance 91

Performance Cache Hardware Storage 91

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Buckle up as we delve into the world of Redis® monitoring, exploring the most important Redis® metrics, discussing essential tools, and even peering into the future of Redis® performance management. Key Takeaways Redis® monitoring is essential for safeguarding performance, reliability, and security.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This is a question recently asked and explored by a team of Google researchers led by Jeff Dean with a major focus on database indexes. More importantly, if this works out well, this could lead to a radical improvement in performance by leveraging hardware trends such as GPUs and TPUs. Learned indexes.

Artificial Intelligence 40

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key Takeaways Distributed storage systems benefit organizations by enhancing data availability, fault tolerance, and system scalability, leading to cost savings from reduced hardware needs, energy consumption, and personnel. Variations within these storage systems are called distributed file systems.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 30, 2019

Digital Performance: 99% reduction in Response Time, from 18.2s Infrastructure Optimization: 100% improvement in Database Connectivity. Reducing CPU Utilization to now only consume 15% of initially provisioned hardware. Here are two I would start with: Web Performance Optimization with Dynatrace.

Cache 197

Cache Architecture Database Government 197

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The following chart shows the same 1TB database testing. ‘It Just Runs Faster’ – Out of the box SQL Server 2016 DBCC provides you better performance, scale while shrinking your maintenance window(s.). The DBCC CheckDB demonstration loads a table and demonstrates the performance improvement. or newer release.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

ScaleOut Software

APRIL 22, 2020

Maintaining rapidly changing data in back-end databases creates bottlenecks that impact responsiveness. In addition, repeatedly accessing back-end databases to serve up popular items, such as product descriptions and news stories, also adds to the bottleneck. The Solution: Distributed Caching.

Cache 52

Cache Storage Servers Database 52

Percona

AUGUST 8, 2023

Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining normal operations after a traffic increase caused performance destabilization. Unfortunately, this topic is more of an art than a science, given that there is really no foolproof algorithm or approach that can tell you exactly where you might hit a bottleneck with server performance.

Traffic 89

Traffic Cache Monitoring Database 89

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This article is an effort to explore techniques used by developers of in-stream data processing systems, trace the connections of these techniques to massive batch processing and OLTP/OLAP databases, and discuss how one unified query engine can support in-stream, batch, and OLAP processing at the same time. High performance and mobility.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Simplicity. Data Store.

Serverless 279

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. Gen 5 is the primary hardware option now for most regions since Gen 4 is aging out. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

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Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. It’s to ensure that our data is durable after each write operation and to make it persistent and consistent without compromising the performance. The same data, in the form of pages inside the Wiredtiger cache, are also marked dirty. wt and index-*.wt).

Hardware 87

Hardware C++ Storage Cache 87

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Durability: “In database systems , durability is the ACID property which guarantees transactions that have committed will survive permanently. Be sure to deploy SQL Server 2017 CU6 or newer for best data durability and performance results. “. Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Input/Output Requirements. The Back Story.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

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

All Things Distributed

JULY 14, 2015

I am excited to share with you that today we are expanding DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers. Streams provide you with the underlying infrastructure to create new applications, such as continuously updated free-text search indexes, caches, or other creative extensions requiring up-to-date table changes.

Database 167

Database Lambda AWS IoT 167

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These developments gradually highlight a system of relevant database building blocks with proven practical efficiency. In this article I’m trying to provide more or less systematic description of techniques related to distributed operations in NoSQL databases. Data Placement. System Coordination. Read/Write latency.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

Back in 2016, I gave a talk outlining the causes and effects of the terrible performance of web apps built using popular tools on the fastest-growing device segment: low-end to mid-range Android phones. Poor performance has a compound effect on user expectations at an ecosystem level. Live by the link, die by the link.

Performance 124

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

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

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). These pipelines are stored directly in the database. End-to-end the picture looks like this: ( Enlarge ).

Processing 72

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Note that the intent of tuning the settings is not exclusively about improving performance but also enhancing the high availability and resilience of the MongoDB database. The Linux default is usually 60 , which is not ideal for database usage. The goal is to reduce memory usage without impacting query performance negatively.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Web Performance APIs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

SQL Performance

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This removes the burden of purchasing and maintaining your hardware, storage and networking infrastructure, while still giving you a very familiar experience with Windows and SQL Server itself. You will still have to maintain your operating system, SQL Server and databases just like you would in an on-premises scenario. Esv3-series.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

SQL Performance

JUNE 21, 2019

This article will expand on my previous article and point out how these apply to SQL Server , Azure SQL Database , and Azure SQL Managed Instance. When looking at backups, I check for recovery model and the current history of backups for each database. Azure SQL Database and Azure Managed Instance have managed backups.

Servers 49

Servers Azure Hardware Database 49

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

KB sectors run on smaller sectors   14 System and sample databases   15 Determining the formatted sector size of database   15 What sector sizes does SQL Server support? KB boundary   12 Larger transaction logs   13 Restore and attach   14 Format for 4 ?KB

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