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 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Percona

AUGUST 17, 2023

PostgreSQL is open source relational database management software. StackOverflow statistics show that 26% of developers preferred it in 2017, 34% in 2019, and 40% in 2021. In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ).

Open Source 98

Open Source Healthcare Social Media Database 98

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. Test Environment. BountyAmount.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86

Percona

APRIL 12, 2023

They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

Open Source 98

Open Source Programming Database Servers 98

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

I’m using the “Airlines On-Time Performance” database from [link] (You can find the scripts I used here: [link] ). Here is a summary of the queries: Simple queries: select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'. sec) mysql> explain select count(*) from ontime where flightdate > '2017-01-01'G 1.

Cache 72

Cache C++ AWS Airlines 72

O'Reilly Software

APRIL 4, 2018

Google was among the pioneers that created “web scale” architectures to analyze the massive data sets that resulted from “crawling” the web that gave birth to Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL databases. The data shape will dictate capacity planning, tuning of the backbone, and scalability analysis for individual components.

Architecture 80

Architecture Scalability Google Operating System 80

SQL Server According to Bob

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Microsoft engineering is actually sending quite a few folks over the Atlantic to come talk about SQL Server 2017, SQL Server on Linux, GDPR, Performance, Security, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, and Azure CosmosDB. Adaptive query processing in SQL databases – Bob Ward and Conor Cunningham.

Engineering 40

Engineering Azure Best Practices Servers 40

SQL Performance

MAY 7, 2019

Understanding what these mean and how to investigate them is critical so you don’t succumb to what I call ‘knee-jerk performance tuning’ and waste time and effort trying to fix a problem that isn’t actually a problem. A better way is to track waits over small intervals, say half an hour, and a script to do that is here. Waits Resources.

Servers 40

Servers Metrics Azure Tuning 40

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

This blog was originally published in July 2017 and was updated in August 2023. Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables but still gets treated as a single table by the SQL layer. These benefits collectively contribute to a more efficient database environment.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU. I've shared many posts about superpower observability tools, but often humble hacking is just as effective. These can be invisible to top(8).

Speed 40

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 40

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A lot of things change over the course of a few major versions of our favorite database platform. I’ve written several articles about this function (and STRING_AGG, which arrived in SQL Server 2017) since this post was written: Performance Surprises and Assumptions : STRING_SPLIT(). It’s fast, too, but it’s not perfect.

C++ 46

C++ Servers Testing Performance 46

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. Although such databases can be very efficient with counts and averages, some queries will be slow or simply non existent. Processed 4.15

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