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. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems. Cached vs Scaled Workloads.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

SQL Server According to Bob

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Note: We received feedback that there was some confusion on us calling this functionality “tail of the log caching” because our documentation and prior history has referred to the tail of the log as the portion of the hardened log that has not been backed up. Block storage is what you think of today as disk access.

Cache 40

Cache Servers Media Storage 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Jul 4 - Leases: An efficient fault-tolerant mechanism for distributed file cache consistency , Gray, Cary, and David Cheriton, Vol. Jul 6 - End-To-End Arguments in System Design , by J. Clark, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2(4):277-288, November 1984. Traiger, Modeling in Data Base Management Systems, G.M.

Operating System 144

Operating System Cache AWS Scalability 144

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

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

MariaDB is a popular SQL open source relational database management system that originated as a fork of MySQL after MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 and later Oracle in 2010. It supports multiple operating systems and platforms, making it an ideal choice for various applications.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. Operating System (OS) settings Swappiness Swappiness is a Linux kernel setting that influences the behavior of the Virtual Memory manager when it needs to allocate a swap, ranging from 0-100.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

SQL Server According to Bob

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Device level flushing may have an impact on your I/O caching, read ahead or other behaviors of the storage system. The “forced flush” changes in SQL Server avoid flushes, when possible, in order to improve performance on non-optimized Fua file systems. Any storage device that can survive a power outage.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. The lock manager has partitions, lock block cache and other structures. Reduce the number of partitions and size of the cache. IO Request Caches. SQLPAL may cache I/O request structures with each thread.

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Time of Last Access The time of last access is a caching ​​ algorithm ​​ that enables ​​ cache ​​ entries to be ordered by their ​​ access times.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 8, 2021

Artists like to work at places where they can create groundbreaking entertainment instead of worrying about getting access to the software or source files they need. They could need a GPU when doing graphics-intensive work or extra large storage to handle file management. Artists need many components to be customized.

Entertainment 306

Entertainment Storage Hardware Open Source 306

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

The idea is quite straightforward: Push the minimal code needed to get interactive for the initial route to render quickly, then use service worker for caching and pre-caching resources and then lazy-load routes that you need, asynchronously. An application shell is the minimal HTML, CSS, and JavaScript powering a user interface.

Performance 104

Performance Cache Network Metrics 104

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. Our only option was to roll up our sleeves and build basic cloud file system components such as object store ourselves. Edge caching. Hybrid Sync. Offline access.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52