High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure. MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. We’ve heard a lot about this rising database from the DBA community and our users, and decided to become a sponsor for this years Scylla Summit to learn more about the deployment trends from its users.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

HammerDB

JULY 5, 2022

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Scalegrid

JUNE 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 – ScaleGrid, a leading Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) provider, has just announced support for their MySQL , PostgreSQL and Redis™ solutions on DigitalOcean. This launch is in addition to their current DigitalOcean offering for MongoDB® database , the only DBaaS to support this database on DigitalOcean.

Availability 227

Availability Open Source Benchmarking Database 227

DZone

OCTOBER 2, 2019

You may also like: SQL Server Tips and Techniques for Database Performance Optimization. The general perception is that benchmarks published by vendors can never be trusted; however, well-run benchmarks absolutely have their place, even if performed by a vendor.

Benchmarking 100

Benchmarking Performance Database Servers 100

DZone

MAY 14, 2020

The performance claims made and the hype surrounding the Graviton2 had us itching to see how our high-performance database would perform. We are, of course, referring to the Amazon EC2 M6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors. The numbers were quite exciting with the AWS Graviton2 living up to the hype, we hope you enjoy!

AWS 130

AWS Benchmarking Database Performance 130

High Scalability

APRIL 3, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report by the experts at DB-Engines.

Database 177

Database Cloud Open Source Systems 177

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. And now, execute the benchmark: -- execute the following on the coordinator node pgbench -c 20 -j 3 -T 60 -P 3 pgbench The results are not pretty.

Database 114

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 114

Scalegrid

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

Database 130

Database Cloud Hardware Storage 130

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

To make data count and to ensure cloud computing is unabated, companies and organizations must have highly available databases. A basic high availability database system provides failover (preferably automatic) from a primary database node to redundant nodes within a cluster. HA is sometimes confused with “fault tolerance.”

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. AI-assistance: Use AI to detect anomalies and benchmark your system. Dynatrace news. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years.

Infrastructure 246

Infrastructure Monitoring Virtualization Serverless 246

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. Redis is an advanced key-value store. It has high throughput and runs from memory, but also has the ability to persist data on disk. Redis is a great caching solution for highly demanding applications, and there are […].

Cache 130

Cache Azure Benchmarking Performance 130

HammerDB

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

How Postgres Workload Reports Help Optimize Database Operations The EnterpriseDB blog post can be found here, How Postgres Workload Reports Help Optimize Database Operations. The key findings of the article were as follows: This server had a HammerDB benchmark running against it.

Benchmarking 68

Benchmarking Performance Metrics Database 68

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. What’s your documentation plan?

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

HammerDB

OCTOBER 23, 2023

HammerDB uses stored procedures to achieve maximum throughput when benchmarking your database. HammerDB has always used stored procedures as a design decision because the original benchmark was implemented as close as possible to the example workload in the TPC-C specification that uses stored procedures.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

n0derunner

JUNE 28, 2019

Since the DB is small (50% the size of the Linux RAM) – the database is mostly cached on the read side – so we only see writes going to the DB files. Despite the database flushes ocurring in bursts with a decent amount of concurrency the Nutanix CVM give an average of 1.5ms write response.

Benchmarking 75

Benchmarking Storage Cache Database 75

The Morning Paper

JUNE 16, 2019

Towards multiverse databases Marzoev et al., The central idea behind multiverse databases is to push the data access and privacy rules into the database itself. With multiverse databases, each user sees a consistent “parallel universe” database containing only the data that user is allowed to see.

Database 90

Database Cache Benchmarking Efficiency 90

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Use scripts to configure hosts properly based on the CIS benchmarks. Secrets, such as database credentials, API keys, SSL keys or encryption keys, need to be managed to protect them from discovery.

Open Source 279

Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

David will also talk at the Workshop on Education and Practice of Performance Engineering (WEPPE) about Performance Engineering and Database Development at MongoDB. As well as we will have the Performance Testing in DevOps panel at the Load Testing and Benchmarking workshop where I would be one of the panelist.

Performance Testing 182

Performance Testing Testing Performance Education 182

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Document these metrics, including the benchmark values and any insights gained from analysis, to use as a reference for tracking progress and evaluating the effectiveness of optimization efforts over time. When analyzing the data, consider factors such as time of day, device types, geographic locations, and user demographics.

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 264

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. Not available.

Open Source 244

Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

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. It is important to pay attention to performance when writing database queries. PostgreSQL’s Tuneable Parameters. shared_buffer.

Tuning 79

Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This also means we do not rely on vulnerability databases but are able to identify and block such attacks automatically even if they are exploiting unknown weaknesses. A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Benchmarking spreadsheet systems Rahman et al., construct a set of benchmarks to try and understand what might be going on under the covers in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, and LibreOffice Calc. While a database is barely getting started at 20,000 rows, a spreadsheet could be hanging. Rahman et al. Towards faster spreadsheets.

Benchmarking 56

Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Here, we will discuss a notable new feature in Amazon RDS, the Dedicated Log Volume (DLV), that has been introduced to boost database performance. A Dedicated Log Volume (DLV) is a specialized storage volume designed to house database transaction logs separately from the volume containing the database tables.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

n0derunner

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The post Protected: Nutanix Performance for Database Workloads appeared first on n0derunner. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Database 109

Database Performance Benchmarking 109

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. While many AWS users default to their managed database solution, Amazon RDS, there are alternatives available that can improve your MySQL performance on AWS through advanced customization options and unlimited EC2 instance type support.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

MrTonyD : I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). JavaScript benchmark. . $2 billion : Pokémon GO revenue since launch; 10 : say happy birthday to StackOverflow; $148 million : Uber data breach fine; 75% : streaming music industry revenue in the US; 5.2 I acknowledge that. How does Apple do it?!

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So now lets see what we get in performance mode, an almost 32% improvement (and 53% higher than the published benchmarks). ./bin/pgbench

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. However, as the size of your database grows, it can become challenging to manage and optimize its performance. This can significantly improve query response times and reduce the load on your database servers.

Cache 138

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 138

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

When using Lambda, you might soon end up using more serverless offerings, like databases, which makes emulating the same environment locally even harder. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated.

Lambda 246

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2021

When using Lambda, you might soon end up using more serverless offerings, like databases, which makes emulating the same environment locally even harder. These served as our benchmark when creating our Lambda monitoring extension. As such, providing the same environment during local development can be complicated.

Lambda 246

Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

All the problems, offline hosts, databases, and failing services appear in red. Dynatrace AI continuously monitors these benchmarks, allowing teams to identify and address potential issues proactively. Dashboards and visualizations Standard dashboards and visualizations also provide situational awareness out of the box.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because monolithic applications combine database, client-side interfaces, and server-side application elements in a single executable, they’re difficult to understand, even for their own administrators. Use SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs as performance benchmarks for newly migrated microservices.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

The Morning Paper

MARCH 10, 2020

Characterizing, modeling, and benchmarking RocksDB key-value workloads at Facebook , Cao et al., Or in the case of key-value stores, what you benchmark. So if you want to design a system that will offer good real-world performance, it’s really useful to have benchmarks that accurately represent real-world workloads.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Storage Cache Open Source 59