Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. Managing a database is hard, as it needs continuous updating, tuning, and monitoring to ensure the performance of your website.

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Database Cloud Website Azure 166

Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL on DigitalOcean is a natural fit, but what’s the best way to deploy your cloud database? In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

Database 120

Database Open Source Traffic Small Business 120

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. This is called double buffering.

Tuning 59

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 59

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

Oracle Database is a commercial, proprietary multi-model database management system produced by Oracle Corporation, and the largest relational database management system (RDBMS) in the world. While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013.

Open Source 244

Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Central to this infrastructure is our use of multiple online distributed databases such as Apache Cassandra , a NoSQL database known for its high availability and scalability. Over time as new key-value databases were introduced and service owners launched new use cases, we encountered numerous challenges with datastore misuse.

Latency 248

Latency Storage Cache Efficiency 248

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sure, database migration is complex, particularly when you’re looking to migrate from a proprietary database to an open source one. Database migration is almost always time-consuming, tedious, and full of potential pitfalls. Database migration is complex Let’s start here. Have you tuned your environment?

Database 88

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 88

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 97

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35 , including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings, among other improvements and features. Stay tuned!

Availability 98

Availability Metrics Monitoring Open Source 98

SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. In each of the deployment models, the role of the database administrator is to make sure that SSRS is stable, dependable, and recoverable.

Tuning 67

Tuning Servers Database Best Practices 67

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rather than listing the concepts, function calls, etc, available in Citus, which frankly is a bit boring, I’m going to explore scaling out a database system starting with a single host. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

Database 109

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109

Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2024

You can easily pivot between a hot Kubernetes cluster and the log file related to the issue in 2-3 clicks in these Dynatrace® Apps: Infrastructure & Observability (I&O), Databases, Clouds, and Kubernetes. Is there a sudden spike in errors? A sudden drop in received log data?

Analytics 195

Analytics Infrastructure Database Monitoring 195

DZone

AUGUST 21, 2021

The use case here was that I had a big database table (~ 10 million records) that I need to query on one column in it, but need to eventually get all data inside it, imagine a table containing millions of customers and in one use case, you need to get the mobile numbers (MSISDN) of all of them at once inside your application.

Big Data 246

Big Data Performance Tuning Mobile 246

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2019

In Part I , we introduced a High Availability (HA) framework for MySQL hosting and discussed various components and their functionality. Semisynchronous replication, which is natively available in MySQL, helps the HA framework to ensure data consistency and redundancy for committed transactions.

Availability 113

Availability Tuning Speed Network 113

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Note that the developers of the respective services need to make these metrics available by exposing them via, for example, a Prometheus endpoint that can be used by the OpenTelemetry collector to ingest them and forward them to your Dynatrace tenant. So, stay tuned for more enhancements and features. This is just the beginning.

Metrics 187

Metrics Tuning Monitoring Availability 187

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

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? MySQL comes pre-configured to be conservative instead of making the most of the resources available in the server. Why is that?

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

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.

Tuning 130

Tuning Cache Storage Database 130

Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

However, setting the right parameters for Kubernetes clusters to ensure application availability, performance, and resilience while avoiding overspending isn’t a walk in the park. Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. The Akamas approach. Additional resources.

Latency 217

Latency Tuning Efficiency AWS 217

Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these parameters are configured according to the database server and its workload.

Tuning 58

Tuning Database Servers Processing 58

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

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. Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide.

Performance 129

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 129

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. Within the next 90 days, all enhancements mentioned in this blog post will be available to all Dynatrace customers. trial page

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Serverless Azure Lambda AWS 201

Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

Latency 86

Latency Tuning Open Source Network 86

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. However, storing and querying such data presents a unique set of challenges: High Throughput : Managing up to 10 million writes per second while maintaining high availability.

Latency 236

Latency Storage Traffic Tuning 236

SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

Azure SQL Database is Microsoft's database-as-a-service offering that provides a tremendous amount of flexibility. Microsoft is continually working on improving their products and Azure SQL Database is no different. HyperScale Database. Hyperscale databases are provisioned using vCores. DTU Pricing Tier.

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Azure Database Serverless Hardware 55

Percona

JANUARY 3, 2019

Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). PostgreSQL is one of the leading open-source databases. We will also touch on tuning some Linux kernel parameters.

Tuning 41

Tuning Performance Open Source Software Engineering 41

Scalegrid

MARCH 23, 2020

It supports high-availability, provides automated load balancing, and has the intelligence to balance load between masters and slaves so write loads are always directed at masters, while read loads are directed to slaves. The Pgpool-II parent process forks 32 child processes by default – these are available for connection.

Cache 264

Cache Servers Architecture Processing 264

Percona

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Bloom filters are an essential component of an LSM-based database engine like MyRocks. Tuning In terms of tuning, two parameters can be tuned, the size of the bitmap and the number of bits set by every value. A good understanding of how bloom filters work can only lead to improved database performance.

Storage 131

Storage Tuning Cache Engineering 131

Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

WordPress also benefited from and popularized MySQL, introducing the LAMP stack – and open source – to an audience that might never have touched a database before or had any intro to open source. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. With a little tuning, though, MySQL could hold its own.

Open Source 100

Open Source Traffic Tuning Database 100

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

For that, we focused on OpenTelemetry as the underlying technology and showed how you can use the available SDKs and libraries to instrument applications across different languages and platforms. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases. What is OneAgent?

Metrics 183

Metrics Monitoring Database Network 183

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Redis® is an in-memory database that provides blazingly fast performance. This makes it a compelling alternative to disk-based databases when performance is a concern. Redis returns a big list of database metrics when you run the info command on the Redis shell. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

As the system evolves to solve more and more use cases, we have expanded its scope to handle not only the CDC use cases but also more general data movement and processing use cases such that: Events can be sourced from more generic applications (not only databases). They use different mechanisms to stream events out of the source databases.

Processing 273

Processing Transportation Entertainment Tuning 273

Percona

JUNE 20, 2023

mysql> use app_schema Database changed mysql> show tables; ERROR 1226 (42000): User 'john_smith' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 10) max_updates_per_hour If the user tries to run more than the defined updates per hour, the following error message will appear. You can read more about it in MySQL 8.0

Tuning 111

Tuning Database Open Source Scalability 111

The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Telltale learns what constitutes typical health for an application, no alert tuning required. Intelligent Monitoring Every service operator knows the difficulty of alert tuning. By Andrei U., A metric crossed a threshold.

Monitoring 215

Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 215

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases. And without the encumbrances of traditional databases, Grail performs fast. “In In most cases, especially with more complex queries, Grail gives you answers at five to 100 times more speed than any other database you can use right now.”

Analytics 199

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database 199

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. We started with Amazon Dynamo, a simple key-value store that was built to be highly available and scalable to power various mission-critical applications in Amazon’s e-commerce platform. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo.

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Availability Performance Scalability AWS 136

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Getting specific metrics from libraries that are pre-instrumented with OpenTelemetry (for example, database drivers). Of course, all the ingested metrics are available to Davis AI and support auto-adaptive baselining or threshold-based alerting. The OpenTelemetry metrics exporters are open source projects, available on GitHub.

Metrics 152

Metrics Open Source Tuning Analytics 152

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Let’s look at some of the most popular Percona Database Performance Blog posts in 2018. With the Percona Database Performance Blog, Percona staff and leadership work hard to provide the open source community with insights, technical support, predictions and metrics around multiple open source database software technologies.

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41