Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

Compare Latency. lower latency compared to DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. Now, let’s take a look at the throughput and latency performance of our comparison. Next, we are going to test and compare the latency performance between ScaleGrid and DigitalOcean for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Latency Averages (ms).

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

DZone

JULY 2, 2024

We have run these benchmarks on the AWS EC2 instances and designed a custom dataset to make it as close as possible to real application use cases. We compare throughput, operations per second, and latency under different loads, namely the P90 and P99 percentiles.

Scalability 264

Scalability Performance Benchmarking Games 264

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Performance Benchmarking of PostgreSQL on ScaleGrid vs. AWS RDS Using Sysbench This article evaluates PostgreSQL’s performance on ScaleGrid and AWS RDS, focusing on versions 13, 14, and 15. This study benchmarks PostgreSQL performance across two leading managed database platforms—ScaleGrid and AWS RDS—using versions 13, 14, and 15.

Benchmarking 130

Benchmarking AWS Tuning Metrics 130

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

ShuffleBench i s a benchmarking tool for evaluating the performance of modern stream processing frameworks. Stream processing systems, designed for continuous, low-latency processing, demand swift recovery mechanisms to tolerate and mitigate failures effectively. This significantly increases event latency.

Engineering 245

Engineering Tuning Latency Open Source 245

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In this blog post, we compare Azure Database for MySQL vs. ScaleGrid MySQL on Azure so you can see which provider offers the best throughput and latency performance. We measure latency in ms 95th percentile latency.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

Dynatrace

MAY 5, 2021

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. For example, improving latency by as little as 0.1 latency is the number one reason consumers abandon mobile sites.

Benchmarking 246

Benchmarking Latency Speed Software 246

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. Amazon RDS. Instance Type.

AWS 183

AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Leveraging pgbench , which is a benchmarking utility that comes bundled with PostgreSQL, I will put the cluster through its paces by executing a series of DML operations. 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

Dynatrace

JUNE 27, 2022

In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. connectivity, access, user count, latency) of geographic regions. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data. RUM generates a lot of data. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.

Best Practices 244

Best Practices Monitoring Wireless Traffic 244

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Querying the data While it is reasonable to create panels showing real-time load in order to explore better the types of queries that can be run against pg_stat_monitor, it is more practical to copy and query the data into tables after the benchmarking has completed its run. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key Takeaways Critical performance indicators such as latency, CPU usage, memory utilization, hit rate, and number of connected clients/slaves/evictions must be monitored to maintain Redis’s high throughput and low latency capabilities. It can achieve impressive performance, handling up to 50 million operations per second.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Redis is an advanced key-value store. In fact, it is the number one key value store and eighth most popular database in the world. 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

OCTOBER 18, 2019

HammerDB doesn’t publish competitive database benchmarks, instead we always encourage people to be better informed by running their own. So over at Phoronix some database benchmarks were published showing PostgreSQL 12 Performance With AMD EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Benchmarks .

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

If we had an ID for each streaming session then distributed tracing could easily reconstruct session failure by providing service topology, retry and error tags, and latency measurements for all service calls. Using simple lookup indices in Cassandra gives us the ability to maintain acceptable read latencies while doing heavy writes.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DLVs are particularly advantageous for databases with large allocated storage, high I/O per second (IOPS) requirements, or latency-sensitive workloads. We performed a standard benchmarking test using the sysbench tool to compare the performance of a DLV instance vs a standard RDS MySQL instance, as shared in the following section.

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 30, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 47

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 47

John McCalpin

APRIL 25, 2023

I have a lot of historical data using my ReadOnly benchmark (as described in some of the earliest entries in this blog [link] A read-only access pattern removes the need to understand and explain the many complexities associated with the “streaming stores” typically used in the STREAM benchmark (e.g., Stay tuned!

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Cache Latency Tuning 97

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

Adrian Cockcroft

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Most publications have simply reported the benchmark improvement claims, but if you stop to think about them, the numbers dont make sense based on a simplistic view of the technology changes. So first thing to understand is that the benchmark skips a generation and compares product that differs over about a two year interval.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Energy Architecture Latency 52

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

Scalegrid

APRIL 10, 2025

Testing and Validation Post-upgrade, its vital to conduct performance benchmarking to confirm that the new setup operates within acceptable parameters. Conducting load tests on the new MongoDB setup can help verify that it meets expected performance benchmarks. This helps prevent any disruptions or functionality issues post-upgrade.

Best Practices 130

Best Practices Benchmarking Strategy Database 130

Brendan Gregg

JUNE 29, 2018

These have inspired me to summarize another performance activity: evaluating benchmark accuracy. Accurate benchmarking rewards engineering investment that actually improves performance, but, unfortunately, inaccurate benchmarking is more common. If the benchmark reported 20k ops/sec, you should ask: why not 40k ops/sec?

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Latency Cache Network 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In this talk, we share how Netflix deploys systems to meet its demands, Ceph’s design for high availability, and results from our benchmarking. Netflix runs dozens of stateful services on AWS under strict sub-millisecond tail-latency requirements, which brings unique challenges.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Some will claim that any type of RPC communication ends up being faster (meaning it has lower latency) than any equivalent invocation using asynchronous messaging. 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. Messaging doesn’t do that.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As organizations continue to migrate to the cloud, it’s important to get in front of performance issues, such as high latency, low throughput, and replication lag with higher distances between your users and cloud infrastructure. AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments.

AWS 133

AWS Latency Performance Open Source 133

The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

The initial version of Delos went into production after eight months using a ZooKeeper-backed Loglet implementation, and then four months later it was swapped out for a new custom-built NativeLoglet that gave a 10x improvement in end-to-end latency. For Facebook’s Delos, reconfiguration latencies of 10s of ms are ok.

Virtualization 126

Virtualization Latency Storage Systems 126

John McCalpin

APRIL 2, 2020

To show that I can criticize my own work as well, here I show that sustained memory bandwidth (using an approximation to the STREAM Benchmark ) is also inadequate as a single figure of metric. (It Building separate models for each of the benchmarks was required to get the correct asymptotic properties.

Benchmarking 59

Benchmarking Performance Latency Architecture 59

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 on CentOS 7, both of them spec’d with four vCPUs but with the second one (server B) having a tad over twice as much memory than the reference one (server A).

Tuning 145

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 145

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A Cassandra database cluster had switched to Ubuntu and noticed write latency increased by over 30%. I love short benchmarks like this as I can disassemble the resulting binary and ensure that the compiled instructions match my expectations, and the compiler hasen't messed with it. ## 6. include <sys/time.h>

Speed 103

Speed Java AWS Virtualization 103

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Indexing efficiency Monitoring indexing efficiency in MySQL involves analyzing query performance, using EXPLAIN statements, utilizing performance monitoring tools, reviewing error logs, performing regular index maintenance, and benchmarking/testing. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

VoltDB

JULY 24, 2024

As part of our new support for ARM processors , we recently ran benchmarks on both Intel C7 and ARM c7g on AWS. The goal of these benchmarks was to both quantify performance differences between the two platforms and gain an understanding of their TCO. We used an in-house benchmark called voltdb-charglt.

AWS 52

AWS Benchmarking Hardware Latency 52

n0derunner

AUGUST 20, 2020

The post Cross rack network latency in AWS appeared first on n0derunner. The bandwidth is 25GbE however, the response time between the hosts is so high that I need multiple streams to consume that bandwidth. Compared to my local on-prem lab I need many more streams to.

Latency 40

Latency Network AWS Design 40

Percona

MARCH 20, 2023

Let us take a look also the latency: Here the situation starts to be a little bit more complicated. MySQL Router is the one that has the higher latency no matter what. Looking at the latency, we can see that HAProxy gradually increased as expected, while ProxySQL and MySQL Router just went up from the 256 threads on.

Games 141

Games Latency Traffic Cache 141

Percona

JANUARY 24, 2023

This will be clearly visible in PostgreSQL performance benchmarks as a “ Sawtooth wave ” pattern observed by Vadim in his tests: As we can see, the throughput suddenly drops after every checkpoint due to heavy WAL writing and gradually picks up until the next checkpoint. But this comes with a considerable performance implication.

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

Benchmarking Cache Speed Memcached is optimized for high read and write loads, making it highly efficient for rapid data access in a basic key-value store. Redis’s support for pipelining in a Redis server can significantly reduce network latency by batching command executions, making it beneficial for write-heavy applications.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130