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

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Five years ago when Google published The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines it was a manifesto declaring the world of computing had changed forever. The world is still changing, so Google published a new edition: The Datacenter as a Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines, Third Edition.

Design 54

Design Education Google Internet 54

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

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic. Well, here we are – with storage autoscaling for databases in Kubernetes, slated for release in Q1, 2024 after a year of hard work. You mentioned ‘More Simple Kubernetes’?

Cloud 82

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 82

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

More control: While performing on-premise testing, organizations have more control over configurations, setup, hardware, and software. The security and data storage infrastructure has to meet certain security compliances and standards; only then, the infrastructure is good to go for testing. Scalability comes at a price.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

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. Scalability: As an application expands and needs to handle more data and user loads, the database must scale accordingly.

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Instead of worrying about infrastructure management functions, such as capacity provisioning and hardware maintenance, teams can focus on application design, deployment, and delivery. Scalability.

Serverless 279

Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 279

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2 change the HPC game for two important reasons: Access to scalable on-demand capacity.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. On the other hand, a hybrid model combines at least one private cloud solution with one or more public clouds to strike an optimal balance between security controls and scalability.

Strategy 147

Strategy Cloud Scalability Artificial Intelligence 147

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

A full understanding of why this is important requires some knowledge of the evolution of database hardware and software. The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint.

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

Dynatrace

AUGUST 11, 2022

Before an organization moves to function as a service, it’s important to understand how it works, its benefits and challenges, its effect on scalability, and why cloud-native observability is essential for attaining peak performance. Cloud providers then manage physical hardware, virtual machines, and web server software management.

Development 249

Development Serverless Best Practices Lambda 249

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum uses an MPP database design that can help you develop a scalable, high performance deployment. Greenplum Architectural Design. Greenplum Advantages.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 91

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 91

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Flexibility and scalability Open source databases provide much greater flexibility regarding customization and configuration. Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats.

Open Source 95

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 95

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Benefits of Graviton2 Processors Best price performance for a broad range of workloads Extensive software support Enhanced security for cloud applications Available with managed AWS services Best performance per watt of energy used in Amazon EC2 Storage Continuing with the AWS example, choosing the right storage option will be key to performance.

Cloud 122

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 122

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of the most important elements include: No single point of failure (SPOF): You must eliminate any SPOF in the database environment, including any potential for an SPOF in physical or virtual hardware. Redundancy provides backups and safeguards against data loss in case of hardware failures. there cannot be high availability.

Availability 82

Availability Hardware Open Source Database 82

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

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Understanding DBaaS DBaaS cloud services allow users to use databases without configuring physical hardware and infrastructure or installing software. These may be performance, high availability, operational cost, management, capacity planning, scalability, security, monitoring, etc.

AWS 52

AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

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. It also supports the flexibility and scalability of the database infrastructure.

Availability 110

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 110

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. HammerDB has graphical and command line interfaces for the Windows and Linux operating systems.

Benchmarking 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. All Things Distributed. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Nitro is a revolutionary combination of purpose-built hardware and software designed to provide performance and security. It would have had no way of propagating Nitro across an entire vertical stack of hardware and software services.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Looking back over the past 10 years, there are hundreds of lessons that we’ve learned about building and operating services that need to be secure, reliable, scalable, with predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

Percona

JULY 7, 2023

Where a high availability design once worked well, it can no longer keep up with more complex requirements. The majority of SPOFs are a consequence of scale, where designs that were once adequate (excellent, even) no longer meet evolving, more complex requirements. Failover is essential to minimizing downtime.

Availability 86

Availability Open Source Architecture Database 86

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

An empirical guide to the behavior and use of scalable persistent memory , Yang et al., The Optane DIMM is the first scalable, commercially available NVDIMM. So now that we know the truth about the way Optane DIMMs in App Direct mode behave, how should we design our systems to get the best out of them? FAST’20.

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. If you don’t have well-designed and small columns for this composite primary key, it could enlarge all of your secondary indexes. These benefits collectively contribute to a more efficient database environment.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Scalability is a significant concern, as databases must handle growing data volumes and user demands while maintaining peak performance. Vertical scaling is also often discussed, which involves increasing the resources of a single server, which can have limitations in hardware capabilities and become costly as demands grow.

Best Practices 74

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 74

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. The DynamoDB team is launching document model support.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The CITUS columnar extension is just one part of a larger set of capabilities of this extension that when fully implemented creates a fully scalable distributed Postgres database system. The CITUS columnar extension feature set includes: Highly compressed tables: Reduces storage requirements. Columnar storage. References tables.

Database 92

Database Analytics Storage Processing 92

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

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

SQL Server According to Bob

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When we released Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012 as a new and powerful way to achieve high availability, hardware environments included NUMA machines with low-end multi-core processors and SATA and SAN drives for storage (some SSDs). As we moved towards SQL Server 2014, the pace of hardware accelerated.

Availability 40

Availability Servers Hardware Benchmarking 40