HammerDB

OCTOBER 24, 2023

by @krithikasatish and @JoshInnis to provide accelerated load performance for both SQL Server TPROC-C and TPROC-H schemas. This earlier functionality has the advantage that there are no intermediate staging files required, and data is inserted into the database with multi-row inserts as soon as it is created.

Servers 62

Servers C++ Benchmarking Virtualization 62

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. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

Are you looking to get started with the world’s most popular open-source database, and wondering how you should setup your MySQL hosting ? While Microsoft Azure does offer a managed solution, Azure Database, the solution has some major limitations you should know about before migrating your MySQL deployments.

Azure 219

Azure Cloud Virtualization Database 219

Dynatrace

JANUARY 26, 2021

Traditional computing models rely on virtual or physical machines, where each instance includes a complete operating system, CPU cycles, and memory. VMware commercialized the idea of virtual machines, and cloud providers embraced the same concept with services like Amazon EC2, Google Compute, and Azure virtual machines.

Serverless 241

Serverless Efficiency Lambda Azure 241

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. Developers are often strongly discouraged from holding a database connection while other operations take place.

Architecture 200

Architecture Database Latency Servers 200

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram.

Virtualization 111

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 111

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

already address SNMP, WMI, SQL databases, and Prometheus technologies, serving the monitoring needs of hundreds of Dynatrace customers. Extensions can monitor virtually any type of technology in your environment. What’s available now and what’s coming later We’ve already started to migrate Dynatrace-developed Extensions 1.0

Technology 240

Technology Technology Scalability Availability 240

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?

Cloud 242

Cloud Azure AWS Database 242

Dynatrace

JULY 7, 2022

A microservices approach enables DevOps teams to develop an application as a suite of small services. Microservices is a development approach in which a large application is broken down into modular services, which support specific functions and communicate with other services. What is the monolithic architecture approach?

Architecture 193

Architecture Serverless Azure Programming 193

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. These storage nodes collaborate to manage and disseminate the data across numerous servers spanning multiple data centers.

Storage 130

Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 17, 2019

For our MongoDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) AWS deployments that are not open to the internet, this may mean selecting an instance that is allowed to connect to the Security Group and also has VPN connectivity to the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Database Specific Users. Server Name : SG-example-1234.servers.mongodirector.com.

Database 178

Database Servers Open Source AWS 178

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

MongoDB is the #3 open source database and the #1 NoSQL database in the world. It’s a cross-platform document-oriented database that uses JSON-like documents with schema, and is leveraged broadly across startup apps up to enterprise-level businesses developing modern apps. DigitalOcean Advantages for MongoDB.

Azure 187

Azure AWS Latency Database 187

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

The DevOps approach breaks up projects into modular components that development teams build in parallel by working closely with operations and business stakeholders. The process involves monitoring various components of the software delivery pipeline, including applications, infrastructure, networks, and databases. Missed insights.

DevOps 213

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure 213

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While speeding up development processes and reducing complexity does make the lives of Kubernetes operators easier, the inherent abstraction and automation can lead to new types of errors that are difficult to find, troubleshoot, and prevent. That’s why developers and SRE’s rely on telemetry data (i.e.,

Virtualization 159

Virtualization Infrastructure Monitoring Cloud 159

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Smart developers are always looking ahead for ways to adapt in the ever changing world of web development. Staying on top of the latest web development trends could eventually help you land a job that doesn’t exist yet. Here is a roundup of front end web development trends to keep an eye on in 2019.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

AI-driven cloud solutions like ScaleGrid offer a diverse range of database hosting options, robust infrastructure optimized for scalability and security, and enable significant cost reductions, supporting businesses in efficient growth and improved ROI. These services are tailored to meet various business requirements.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Scalability Analytics 147

Dynatrace

JANUARY 19, 2020

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace?

Monitoring 153

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Servers 153

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rapidly growing leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just launched their new fully managed Hosting on Azure for Redis™ service. Redis™, the #1 key-value store and top 10 database in the world, has grown by over 300% in popularity over that past 5 years, per the DB-Engines knowledge base.

Azure 100

Azure Availability Open Source Virtualization 100

Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2020

PgBouncer defines one pool per user+database combination. A client benefits from a pooled connection only if it connects to a child which has previously served a connection for this database+user combination. PgBouncer allows limiting connections per-pool, per-database, per-user or per-client. When are connections reused?

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Database Performance Testing Availability 246

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. Azure Virtual Network Gateways. Effortlessly optimize Azure database performance.

Azure 145

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 145

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Unfortunately, using certain open source database software as part of an HA architecture can present significant challenges. This blog highlights considerations for keeping your own PostgreSQL databases highly available and healthy. The same changes made in the primary database are made in the replicas.

Availability 83

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 83

Percona

OCTOBER 3, 2023

While THP can be beneficial for many applications, enabling it on a database server could have unintended consequences. In this post, we will explore THP, its impact on database servers, and how to disable it for optimal performance and stability. What are Transparent Huge Pages? In this case, THP is enabled.

Database 85

Database Servers Open Source C++ 85

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL server and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. virtual = 2.2G virtual = 2.2G

Cache 96

Cache Database Virtualization Servers 96

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. MySQL was founded in 1995 and went open source in 2000.

Open Source 93

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 93

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Following the series of blogs started by Peter Zaitsev in Installing MySQL with Docker , on deploying Docker containers running open source databases, in this article, I’ll demonstrate how to install and run PostgreSQL using Docker. This blog was originally published in Sept 2021 and was updated in November 2023.

Database 69

Database Open Source Scalability Virtualization 69

SQL Performance

APRIL 8, 2019

Back on December 5, 2017, Microsoft announced that they were using AMD EPYC 7551 processors in their storage-optimized Lv2-Series virtual machines. These AMD EPYC processors have a number of advantages for SQL Server workloads, as I will explain in this article. Since then, Microsoft has changed the naming of this series to Lsv2.

Azure 42

Azure Virtualization Storage Benchmarking 42

Dynatrace

APRIL 15, 2022

Organizations hit this cloud operations wall when replacing static virtual machines with dynamic container orchestration and expanding to multicloud environments. The agency executed one of the largest email migrations from on-premises Exchange servers to Microsoft Office 365 — moving almost 480,000 mailboxes to the cloud.

Cloud 171

Cloud Infrastructure Innovation Monitoring 171

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2019

As of today, the SAP ABAP application server remains the central component of the SAP ERP solution. The ABAP platform monitoring solution is based on the remote monitoring approach and so relies on a Dynatrace ActiveGate extension: No agent installation on SAP servers is required. Why SAP ABAP platform monitoring in Dynatrace?

Monitoring 160

Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure Programming 160

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

Azure is a large and growing cloud computing ecosystem that empowers its users to access databases, launch virtual servers, create websites or mobile applications, run a Kubernetes cluster, and train machine learning models, to name a few examples. The growth of Azure cloud computing.

Azure 136

Azure Serverless IoT Lambda 136

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). Local development is harder. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated. As for the development stage, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment is what you should be looking at.

Lambda 215

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 215

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. Why HammerDB was developed. Originally, HammerDB was named Hammerora because the first database the application supported was Oracle.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. It's an exciting development in cloud computing: hardware virtualization is now fast. I've summarized hypervisor developments in EC2 with the above diagram.

Virtualization 40

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 40

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

Whereas many open source software offerings — like the community version of MySQL — use the GNU General Public License ( GPL ), MongoDB has been under the GNU Affero General Public License ( AGPL ) and more recently under the Server Side Public License ( SSPL ), introduced by MongoDB itself.

Open Source 81

Open Source Programming Database Servers 81

Testlodge

APRIL 14, 2021

Suppose that your organization has developed an enterprise-level desktop application using C# language, which has a three-tier architecture based on.NET framework. The three-tier application should have client, server, and database layer, and each part of it needs to work well across the various platforms. An Example.

Testing 89

Testing Hardware Virtualization Operating System 89

Percona

JULY 15, 2023

One very common problem when trying to optimize a database environment is index usage. Introduction to MySQL Indexes Indexes in MySQL are database structures used to optimize data retrieval speed and efficiency. Need help managing complex database environments? This structure makes for faster data access. So, what to do then?

Virtualization 75

Virtualization Speed Database Efficiency 75

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

This means that there is no need to provision or manage servers (or even containers). Local development is harder. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated. As for the development stage, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment is what you should be looking at.

Lambda 177

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 177

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

To guide organizations through their cloud migrations, Microsoft developed the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Most monitoring tools for migrations, development, and operations focus on collecting and aggregating the three pillars of observability— metrics, traces, and logs. Too much data requested from a database.

Azure 182

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 182