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

Scalegrid

While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. pg_repack – reorganizes tables online to reclaim storage. Oracle support for hardware and software packages is typically available at 22% of their licensing fees. What’s causing this massive shift?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance. I'd expect between 0.1%

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of DDR5 and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) on-processor; for storage including new uses for 3D Xpoint as a 3D NAND accelerator; for networking with the rise of QUIC and eXpress Data Path (XDP); and so on. I also wrote about these topics in detail for my recent [Systems Performance 2nd Edition] book.

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InnoDB Performance Optimization Basics

Percona

This blog is in reference to our previous ones for ‘Innodb Performance Optimizations Basics’ 2007 and 2013. 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. Setting oom_score_adj to -800.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. If the solution works as envisioned, Telenor Connexion can easily deploy it to production and scale as needed without an investment in hardware. Our AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region is open for business now.

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

Make sure your system can handle next-generation DRAM,” [link] Nov 2011 - [Hruska 12] Joel Hruska, “The future of CPU scaling: Exploring options on the cutting edge,” [link] Feb 2012 - [Gregg 13] Brendan Gregg, “Blazing Performance with Flame Graphs,” [link] 2013 - [Shimpi 13] Anand Lal Shimpi, “Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic (..)