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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 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

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

Scalability. So if you have compared the results of your own application and it is repeatable and scalable then why not use that for all of your benchmarking going forward? That is why we run a workload designed exactly for this purpose as it gives us a “benchmark” 2.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. About 20 percent would return a set of rows, but still operate on only a single table. million requests per second.

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