Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Make sure the drives are mounted with noatime and also if the drives are behind a RAID controller with appropriate battery-backed cache. For example: Read/Write tickets WiredTiger uses tickets to control the number of read / write operations simultaneously processed by the storage engine. By default, it uses 50% of the memory + 1 GB.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. This not only enhances performance but also enables you to make more efficient use of your hardware resources, potentially resulting in cost savings on infrastructure.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] Nov 2020 - [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] Jul 2020 - [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

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. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. In addition to the disaster recovery site, this design includes an external layer of nodes.

Availability 108

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 108

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

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. Cached vs Scaled Workloads. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. vCore Pricing Tier. GB per vCore. HyperScale Database.

Azure 55

Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Key areas include: Configuration parameter tuning : This tuning involves altering variables such as memory allocation, disk I/O settings, and concurrent connections based on specific hardware and requirements. This not only results in cost savings by minimizing hardware requirements but also has the potential to decrease cloud expenses.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

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. Microsoft currently has eight main types of virtual machines designed for different types of workloads. Azure VM Types and Series.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

DDR6: Here's What to Expect in RAM Modules,” [link] , Nov 2020 [Salter 20] Jim Salter, “Western Digital releases new 18TB, 20TB EAMR drives,” [link] , Jul 2020 [Spier 20] Martin Spier, Brendan Gregg, et al.,

Performance 52

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 52

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory,) NVM will fundamentally change the way hardware interacts, the way operating systems are designed, and the way applications operate on data. The beauty of persistent memory is that we can use memory layouts for persistent data (with some considerations for volatile caches etc.

Hardware 56

Hardware Programming Media Storage 56

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

Smashing Magazine

JUNE 18, 2020

More specifically, we’re going to talk about storage and UI differences, which are the ones that most often cause confusion to developers when writing Flutter code that they want to be cross-platform. Example 1: Storage. Secure Storage On Mobile. The situation when it comes to mobile apps is completely different.

Storage 93

Storage Mobile Website Java 93

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

Optane DIMMs have lower latency and higher bandwidth than storage devices connected over PCIe (including Optane SSDs), and present a memory address-based interface as opposed to a block-based NVMe interface. Use non-temporal stores for large transfers, and control cache evictions. Optane DIMMs are here! to 0.98.

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. The fastest Androids predictably remain 18-24 months behind, owing to cheapskate choices about cache sizing by Qualcomm, Samsung Semi, and all the rest.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Autoscaling tiered cloud storage in Anna. Could it be Analyzing efficient stream processing on modern hardware ? On one of the themes that captures my imagination, how changing hardware platform influence system design: Rethinking database high availability with RDMA networks. Research papers. (In In random order!).

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Looking back now, things seem to have changed quite significantly.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Media Metrics 145

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. is access to hardware devices. Where Chrome Has Lagged. Content Indexing. PWA App Shortcuts.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Map design decisions against performance budget and the priorities defined early on.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

Internally DBCC CHECK* uses a page scanning coordinator design (MultiObjectScanner.) SQL Server 2016 changes the internal design to (CheckScanner), applying no lock semantics and a design similar to those used with In-Memory Optimized (Hekaton) objects, allowing DBCC operations to scale far better than previous releases.

Hardware 40

Hardware Cache Servers Software Engineering 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Without a strong alignment between dev/design and business/marketing teams, performance isn’t going to sustain long-term. Setting Realistic Goals.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. This is different from ​​ the reference count design ​​ that was ​​ used in SQL Server 7.0 and ​​ 2000.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Krste Asanovic from UC Berkeley kicked off the main program sharing his experience on “ Rejuvenating Computer Architecture Research with Open-Source Hardware ”. He ended the keynote with a call to action for open hardware and tools to start the next wave of computing innovation.

Hardware 18

Hardware Architecture Programming Innovation 18

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

In 2013, A List Apart published Sustainable Web Design by James Christie. how much data does the browser have to download to display your website) and resource usage of the hardware serving and receiving the website. An obvious metric here is CPU usage, but memory usage and other forms of data storage also play their part.

Website Performance 73

Website Performance Website Energy Performance 73

ACM Sigarch

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. GAIA proposed to expand the OS page cache into accelerator memory. Heterogeneous ISA. Programmable I/O Devices.

Architecture 12

Architecture Hardware Cache Storage 12

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But it’s not easy: to pull this off, VFX studios need to build and operate serious technical infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and software licensing), otherwise known as a “ render farm.” Many shows have needs that exceed 100,000 frames, so aggregate rendering time can impact the timely delivery of a show on Netflix.

Cloud 282

Cloud Entertainment AWS Infrastructure 282

Alex Russell

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Add onto that the yawning chasm between low-end and high-end device performance thanks to chip design factors like cache sizes, and it can be difficult to know where to set a device baseline. Time required to read bytes from disk (it’s not zero, even on flash-based storage!). Time to execute and run our code.

Performance 68

Performance Benchmarking Network Mobile 68

Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Fault-tolerance. Interoperability with Hadoop.

Big Data 154

Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

Highly Scalable

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A database should accommodate itself to different data distributions, cluster topologies and hardware configurations. It is possible to design more complex eventually consistent data structures that can leverage either state-based or operation-based replication principles. This redirect is a one-time and should not be cached.

Database 213

Database Latency C++ Scalability 213

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

More importantly, UDM utilizes a single storage backend with benefits of multiple storage systems which avoids moving data across systems hence data duplication, and data consistency issues. Delta implements the unified data management layer by extending the Amazon S3 object storage for ACID transactions and automatic data indexing.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

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. Amazon DynamoDB â?? By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Comments ().

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52