Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

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Open Source Database Storage Scalability 73

SQL Shack

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This article gives an insight into the configuration of Min and Max memory for SQL Server Database instances. Introduction The server performance depends on various factors such as CPU, Memory, and Storage configurations. SQL Server works on top of the operating system and works closely with these resources.

Database 88

Database Servers Operating System Storage 88

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

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Kubernetes also gives developers freedom of choice when selecting operating systems, container runtimes, storage engines, and other key elements for their Kubernetes environments.

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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.

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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. How do I choose which one to use?

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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.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. The performance of a PostgreSQL database has a significant impact on the overall effectiveness of an application.

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Dynatrace

MAY 6, 2021

Contact Dynatrace ONE if you wish to enable Cluster-side screenshot storage on pre-1.216 fresh-installed Clusters. Operating systems support. Future Dynatrace Managed operating systems support changes. The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 September 2021. APM-292404).

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

The urge to create more and more indexes is found to be causing severe damage in many systems. Many times, removing indexes is what we should be doing first before considering any new indexes for the benefit of the entire system. This post is about PostgreSQL, but most of the problems also apply to other database systems.

Tuning 123

Tuning Cache Storage Database 123

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. If you don’t have insight into the software and services that operate your business, you can’t efficiently run your business. Dynatrace news.

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Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 205

Scalegrid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

PostgreSQL graphical user interface (GUI) tools help these open source database users to manage, manipulate, and visualize their data. PostgreSQL is the fourth most popular database management system in the world, and heavily used in all sizes of applications from small to large. Why Use a GUI Tool? Top PostgreSQL GUI Tools.

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Open Source Database Azure Cloud 262

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

Monitoring 205

Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 205

Dynatrace

AUGUST 5, 2022

A message queue is a form of middleware used in software development to enable communications between services, programs, and dissimilar components, such as operating systems and communication protocols. A message queue enables the smooth flow of information to make complex systems work.

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Monitoring Serverless Programming Speed 204

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Nevertheless, there are related components and processes, for example, virtualization infrastructure and storage systems (see image below), that can lead to problems in your Kubernetes infrastructure. Configuring storage in Kubernetes is more complex than using a file system on your host.

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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.

Performance 54

Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

JUNE 6, 2023

A full backup is a comprehensive data backup strategy that involves creating a complete, exact copy of all data and files in a database. In addition, they are used for restoring or moving data to a new system. In order to implement effective full backups of your database, you must follow some best practices.

Storage 67

Storage Strategy Network Efficiency 67

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0 Percona Server for MySQL 8.1.0-1

Open Source 77

Open Source Azure Servers Programming 77

Percona

JUNE 4, 2023

Before we dive into the differences between MariaDB and MySQL, we will provide a thorough examination of each relational database management system (RDBMS). In addition, there are fewer resources, plugins, libraries, third-party tools, and sources of support available than for other, more established database systems.

Open Source 52

Open Source Servers Storage Scalability 52

Testsigma

DECEMBER 4, 2020

You should ensure to test your application on all the possible combinations of operating systems, screen sizes and resolutions that the app users might be using. These may include screen resolution, orientation, different versions of operating systems, camera, motion sensor, etc. Step 6: Storage.

Mobile 65

Mobile Testing Operating System Storage 65

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. 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. 25.84 - Total 21.04

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All Things Distributed

MAY 18, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. Today a new storage option for Amazon S3 has been launched: Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). Under the covers Amazon S3 is a marvel of distributed systems technologies.

Storage 72

Storage Cloud AWS Scalability 72

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

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2020

This means that you get full visibility, all the way from individual user actions down to the specific server-side database statements that contribute to mobile crashes. Here are some highlights of what we have in the pipeline: Improved underlying storage for faster rendering of charts. Analyze each crash group in-depth.

Mobile 165

Mobile Servers Operating System Storage 165

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

SQL Performance

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Azure SQL Database Managed Instance became generally available in late 2018. Organizations are taking advantage of having managed backups, lots of built-in security features, an uptime SLA of 99.99%, and an always up-to-date environment where they are no longer responsible for patching SQL Server or the operating system.

Azure 63

Azure Performance Storage Latency 63

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

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. Why HammerDB was developed.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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.

Servers 90

Servers Media Cache Storage 90

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

The Amazon Elastic File System. AWS has been offering a range of storage solutions: objects, block storage, databases, archiving, etc. Customers have been asking to add file system functionality to our set of solutions as much of their traditional software required a broad accessible shared file system.

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Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

One of the common ways to classify database workloads is whether it is “read intensive” or “write intensive”. Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability.

Benchmarking 46

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 46

All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. You can then off load the management and scaling of your database and application stack to Amazon RDS and AWS Elastic Beanstalk , and focus on adding value to your customers. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().

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Cloud Development AWS Servers 116

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements.

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Scalability 115

HammerDB

MAY 5, 2019

Note that the main developer of HammerDB is Intel employee (#IAMINTEL) however HammerDB is a personal open source project and HammerDB has no optimization whatsoever for a database running on any particular architecture. in the directory storage/innobase/ut the following section has UT_RELAX_CPU defined to call the PAUSE instruction on x86.

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

Photo by Adrian I spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to find out what they were going to release next, before everyone else. as a result there were product and messaging changes.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

MAY 19, 2019

SQL Server will ship Azure SQL Database Edge: [link]. For example, Azure SQL Database Edge can already use TSQL Predict Machine Learning (ML) and Column Storage. Partitioning allows SQL Server to scale to the largest systems with record-setting performance. ‘ For example, going as far back as SQL Server 7.0

IoT 61

IoT Servers Development Cache 61

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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