Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Hardware Memory The amount of RAM to be provisioned for database servers can vary greatly depending on the size of the database and the specific requirements of the company. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability.

Performance 127

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 127

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Now that Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) is in high demand, there are multiple questions regarding AWS services that cannot always be answered easily: When should I use Aurora and when should I use RDS MySQL ? What we should really compare is the MySQL and Aurora database engines provided by Amazon RDS.

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Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Estimates vary, but most reports put the average cost of unplanned database downtime at approximately $300,000 to $500,000 per hour, or $5,000 to $8,000 per minute. With so much at stake, database high availability and fault tolerance have become must-have items, but many companies just aren’t certain which one they must have.

Availability 80

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 80

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

Narrowing the gap between serverless and its state with storage functions , Zhang et al., In databases you probably know it as stored procedures. Shredder is " a low-latency multi-tenant cloud store that allows small units of computation to be performed directly within storage nodes. " SoCC’19. "Narrowing

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Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2020

There’s no other competing software that can provide this level of value with minimum effort and optimal hardware utilization that can scale up to web-scale! I’d like to stress the lean approach to hardware that our customers require for running Dynatrace Managed. Optimal metric storage management strategy.

Performance 150

Performance Hardware Java Storage 150

Percona

MARCH 28, 2023

Every database system has to ensure durability and reliability. ” This acts as a step to ensure durability by recovering lost data from the same journal files in case of crashes, power, and hardware failures between the checkpoints (see below) Here’s what the process looks like.

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Hardware C++ Storage Cache 90

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. From AWS documentation , Amazon EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Cloud 121

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 121

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Redis® Monitoring Essentials Ensuring the performance, reliability, and safety of a Redis® database requires active monitoring. With these essential support systems in place, you can effectively monitor your databases with up-to-date data about their health and functioning status at all times.

Strategy 130

Strategy Monitoring Latency DevOps 130

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Real-world examples like Spotify’s multi-cloud strategy for cost reduction and performance, and Netflix’s hybrid cloud setup for efficient content streaming and creation, illustrate the practical applications of each model. In this scenario, two notable models – multi-cloud and hybrid cloud have emerged. But what do these entail?

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

The Morning Paper

MARCH 3, 2020

Millions of tiny databases , Brooker et al., It takes you through the thinking processes and engineering practices behind the design of a key part of the control plane for AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS): the Physalia database that stores configuration information. NSDI’20. This paper is a real joy to read.

Database 106

Database AWS Network Design 106

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. Let’s dive in and learn how (and what) to effectively monitor MySQL performance, along with examples from PMM, by understanding the critical KPIs to watch for.

Performance 106

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 106

n0derunner

DECEMBER 18, 2018

a 10TB database with 20% hot data) we observe a 2X improvement in throughput for random access across the 2TB hot dataset. On the same hardware with AES enabled – the time is cut in half. This is true for all storage, so speeding up metadata resolution can make a dramatic improvement to overall throughput as we demonstrate.

Performance 40

Performance Cache Hardware Storage 40

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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

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.

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Availability Open Source Architecture Database 85

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. RSS feeds are an example of a widely used publish-and-subscribe mechanism. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

Monitoring 196

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 196

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

Consumers store messages in a queue — usually in a buffer or on a storage medium — until they can process and delete them. RSS feeds are an example of a widely used publish-and-subscribe mechanism. The problem could be in the database, the HTTP connection, the configuration of the message, or an outage on the sending or receiving end.

Monitoring 195

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 195

Percona

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As businesses and applications increasingly rely on MySQL databases to manage their critical data, ensuring data reliability and availability becomes paramount. Learn more: Discover six of the most common causes of poor database performance in our free eBook. Why Do MySQL Backups Matter? What is the Recovery Time Objective?

Best Practices 80

Best Practices Storage Strategy Database 80

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The goal of WebAssembly is to execute at native speeds by taking advantage of common hardware features available on a variety of platforms. With cloud-based infrastructure, organizations can easily scale their web applications to handle increased traffic or demand without the need for expensive hardware upgrades.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Database architects working with MongoDB encounter specific challenges related to database systems and system growth. Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance.

Best Practices 73

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 73

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Some startups adopted MySQL in its early days such as Facebook, Uber, Pinterest, and many more, which are now big and successful companies that prove that MySQL can run on large databases and on heavily used sites. Example (using the employee sample DB ): Suppose we have the following schema: db1 employees> show create table employeesG 1.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Encrypting data at rest in a database management system (DBMS) refers to securing data by encrypting it when it is not being used or accessed. TDE can be applied at various levels, such as at the database, column, or cell level, depending on the organization’s specific security needs. Database-level encryption.

Database 94

Database Storage Servers Strategy 94

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Among the different components of modern software solutions, the database is one of the most critical. There are many times we get asked why some cloud instance performed poorly for their database application and almost always turned out to be some configuration error. For storage, FIO is generally used. Database: MySQL 8.0.31

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JULY 26, 2023

MongoDB is a non-relational document database that provides support for JSON-like storage. First released in 2009, it is the most used NoSQL database and has been downloaded more than 325 million times. The bigger the database, the bigger the damage from a leak. For example, MongoDB 5.0

Database 81

Database Servers Storage Strategy 81

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.

Azure 72

Azure Virtualization Servers Storage 72

Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why not just create another database on the same instance? We split databases by function/team to give each team full autonomy over their schema, And if someone screws up, it breaks their cluster, not all databases. So you put multiple MySQL servers on a single machine instead of multiple databases inside one MySQL instance.

Programming 86

Programming Servers Database Hardware 86

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.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. So, What is MySQL Partitioning?

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. The class of techniques described in this blog post, which we broadly refer to as applied hardware and architecture cryptography, apply proven cryptographic techniques to strengthen systems.

Systems 47

Systems Hardware Storage Healthcare 47

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

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. Spoiler alert: This post focuses on MongoDB 3.6.X

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In the database world there are essentially two types of database operations: Online Transaction Processing , OLTP : Online transaction processing applications have high throughput and are insert- or update-intensive in database management. Columnar storage. A working example of columnar tables. OLTP vs OLAP.

Database 93

Database Analytics Storage Processing 93

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. It can’t handle loops for example (an analysis of 4.6M

Processing 72

Processing Hardware Database Azure 72

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

Dotcom-Montior

MAY 12, 2020

Websites are now more than just the storage and retrieval of information to present content to users. Database connectivity. Hardware resources. Database Connectivity. Present-day applications make more much use of the database. Hardware Resources. The list goes on and on. Connection time. Network latency.

Monitoring 63

Monitoring Entertainment Hardware Latency 63

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. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat will remain booked even if the system crashes.” – [link]. The Back Story. Description.

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