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MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

The Netflix TechBlog

From chunk encoding to assembly and packaging, the result of each previous processing step must be uploaded to cloud storage and then downloaded by the next processing step. Uploading and downloading data always come with a penalty, namely latency.

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How Bloom Filters Work in MyRocks

Percona

Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. LSM storage engines like MyRocks are very different from the more common B-Tree-based storage engines like InnoDB. Download Percona Distribution for MySQL Today

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PostgreSQL Indexes Can Hurt You: Negative Effects and the Costs Involved

Percona

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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OneAgent for Windows—Enhancements to *.msi-based deployment

Dynatrace

Consequently, each new version of OneAgent for Windows consumed double storage space: one for the *.exe This storage space was consumed not only on our own infrastructure but also on each of the Dynatrace cluster nodes in the case of Managed deployments. . msi file, you need to download the regular *.exe msi artifact.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

Scalegrid

Compare ease of use across compatibility, extensions, tuning, operating systems, languages and support providers. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. PostgreSQL offers more light-weight tuning capabilities, like their Query Optimizer, and DBaaS platforms like ScaleGrid offer advanced slow query analysis.

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The Most Important MySQL Setting

Percona

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? To be fair, that is also true with PostgreSQL; it hasn’t been tuned either, and it, too, can also perform much better.

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