Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. 34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction.

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Performance Testing Testing Performance Education 182

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).

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Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 98

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Four types of tools are commonly used to detect software vulnerabilities: Source-code tests that are used in development environments. Source code tests. Run source code tests.

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Open Source Benchmarking Best Practices Network 279

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

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.”

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Common user action metrics (or performance testing metrics) measured and monitored in DEM include the following: User action duration. 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.

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Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 264

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 built a testing environment?

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Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

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.

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

using RL agents for test case scheduling By: Stanislav Kirdey , Kevin Cureton , Scott Rick , Sankar Ramanathan Introduction Netflix brings delightful customer experiences to homes on a variety of devices that continues to grow each day. Detect a regression in a test case. These problems could be solved in several different ways.

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 164

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. Instead, the issue is with the client.

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Benchmarking Performance Metrics Database 68

Scalegrid

APRIL 10, 2025

Organizations must prepare for the EOL by creating a migration strategy, ensuring data backups, assessing compatibility with newer versions, and conducting thorough testing post-upgrade. This process involves several steps, including backup and restore best practices, exploring upgrade paths and strategies, and testing and validation.

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Best Practices Benchmarking Strategy Database 130

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. On MySQL, we saw a 1.5X

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Database Network C++ 63

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) solutions are a traditional way of addressing this. 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. Unfortunately, they also introduce risk.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

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. Oracle Costs.

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Open Source Tuning C++ 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

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

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.

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AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

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. remove the dependency on the monolith after all testing is successful. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

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. Also, “serverless” means more than just Lambda functions. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

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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. Also, “serverless” means more than just Lambda functions. Top enterprise use-cases for AWS Lambda.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Monitoring 246

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.

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Tuning Database Performance Benchmarking 79

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

MrTonyD : I was writing production code over 30 years ago (C, OS, database). JavaScript benchmark. It's the fastest device I've ever tested. . $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

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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. Basic complexity testing.

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Benchmarking Systems Google Scalability 56

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.

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Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 138

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

To illustrate this, I ran the Sysbench-TPCC synthetic benchmark against two different GCP instances running a freshly installed Percona Server for MySQL version 8.0.31 That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server. The throughput didn’t double but increased by 57%.

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 145

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

All the problems, offline hosts, databases, and failing services appear in red. By simulating user interactions and running tests from various locations worldwide, synthetic monitoring provides a comprehensive view of application performance and availability. Before a crisis. During a crisis.

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Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. ” Usually when benchmark results are surprising it is a major hint that something could be misconfigured and that certainly seems the case here, so what could it be?

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Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In these blogs, we dove deep into how the frameworks work, their setup requirements, pros and cons, and how they performed in standby server tests, primary server tests and network isolation tests (split brain scenario) to help you determine the best framework to improve the uptime for your PostgreSQL-powered applications.

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Availability Azure AWS DevOps 187

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2019 our stunning colleagues in the Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team benchmarked EBS performance for our use case and migrated existing clusters to use EBS Elastic volumes. This allowed us to increase total storage capacity without adding a new Cassandra node to the existing cluster. What’s next?

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Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

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.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

On MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL , there is a schema called information_schema (I_S) which provides information about database tables, views, indexes, and more. Disclaimer : This blog post is meant to show a less-known problem but is not meant to be a serious benchmark.

Cache 124

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 124

HammerDB

JULY 8, 2024

A frequently asked question with HammerDB is when a user is using the TPROC-C workload to test database failure and failover scenarios, by deliberately killing connections or shutting down the database during a workload and then restarting it. Is a TPROC-C workload valid if you have restarted the database?

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Database Benchmarking Virtualization C++ 52

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also remains scalable so you don’t need to worry about its performance while tending to the rest of your environment.

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Monitoring Scalability Database Cache 117

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

Such “torn pages” are corruptions from the database point of view. This is not a problem for PostgreSQL alone; every database software needs to deal with this problem. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests. This is generally referred to as “ partial page writes ” or “ torn pages.”

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Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

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.

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Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

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.

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Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Why RPC is “faster” It’s tempting to simply write a micro-benchmark test where we issue 1000 requests to a server over HTTP and then repeat the same test with asynchronous messages. If you did such a benchmark, here’s an incomplete picture you might end up with: Graph of microbenchmark showing RPC is faster than messaging.

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Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97