Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

This article will explore how they handle data storage and scalability, perform in different scenarios, and, most importantly, how these factors influence your choice. Redis Revealed: An Overview Redis, a renowned open-source, in-memory remote dictionary server, stands out for its diverse data structures and advanced features.

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Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Scalegrid

JULY 13, 2020

The unstoppable rise of open source databases. One database in particular is causing a huge dent in Oracle’s market share – open source PostgreSQL. See how open source PostgreSQL Community version costs compare to Oracle Standard Edition and Oracle Enterprise Edition. What’s causing this massive shift?

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Open Source C++ Tuning Database 244

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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

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Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 126

HammerDB

JUNE 27, 2022

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was founded to bring standards to database benchmarking, and the history of the TPC can be found here.

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Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

As database performance is heavily influenced by the performance of storage, network, memory, and processors, we must understand the upper limit of these key components. For storage, FIO is generally used. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. 0.42 %sys 9.52

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Performance Benchmarking Cache Storage 54

Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

xlarge 4vCPU 8GB-RAM Storage: EBS volume (root) 80GB gp2 (IOPS 240/3000) As well, high availability will be integrated, guaranteeing cluster viability in the case that one worker node goes down. 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.

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Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 110

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

A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a popular choice among open source options for effectively monitoring MySQL performance. They include backup success rate, backup duration, recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), and backup storage utilization.

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Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 109

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Storage The type of storage and disk used for database servers can have a significant impact on performance and reliability. Benchmark before you decide. Cloud Different cloud providers offer a range of instance types and sizes, each with varying amounts of CPU, memory, and storage. Transparent huge pages (THP) disabled.

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SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

IT professionals are familiar with scoping the size of VMs with regards to vCPU, memory, and storage capacity. Storage optimized – High disk throughput and IO. and the overall size will determine the amount of temporary storage available. Premium storage support. VM Types and Sizes. VM Image Options. Generation.

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Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

” Here are additional metrics used to determine the reliability of a database, make adjustments that minimize downtime, and set benchmarks for meeting business continuity requirements. The transparency of open code enhances security as potential vulnerabilities can be identified and patched more quickly by the community.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 113

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times. While MySQL can handle large data sets, it is always recommended to keep only the used data in the databases, as this will make data access more efficient, and also will help to save costs on storage and backups. 1 mysql mysql 704M Dec 30 02:28 employees.ibd -rw-r --.

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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.

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Database Cloud Open Source Engineering 177

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 In MySQL, considering the standard storage engine, InnoDB , the data cache is called Buffer Pool. In PostgreSQL, it is called shared buffers.

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Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

After the “data dictionary” (DD) engine and DD cache are initialized on a server, the Storage Engines can ask for a table definition. Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables. This search tuple (key) is used to find the record to perform the undo operation.

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Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 89

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Additionally both commercial and open source tools based on the specifications also continued to use TPC-C and TPC-H to describe these workloads. In the days before highly performant SSDs and persistent memory, database benchmarks had a significant challenge in comparing performance due to the available I/O performance.

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C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

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.

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Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 121

Percona

JULY 1, 2023

Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) Deployment Aurora’s Multi-Availability Zone (AZ) deployment offers remarkably high availability and fault tolerance by automatically replicating data across multiple availability zones using its distributed storage architecture to eliminate single points of failure. RDS MySQL is 5.5,

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AWS Database Serverless Storage 52

Percona

AUGUST 22, 2023

We’ll wrap it up by suggesting high availability open source solutions, and we’ll introduce you to support options for ensuring continuous high performance from your systems. At the same time, we’re aware that achieving high availability using open source software takes extra effort.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 209 File system as a service at Netflix Kishore Kasi , Senior Software Engineer Abstract : As Netflix grows in original content creation, its need for storage is also increasing at a rapid pace. In order to maintain performance, benchmarking is a vital part of our system’s lifecycle.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 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. Fsync Performance on Storage Devices. And making lists. Interested?

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Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

faster access to external storage and data locality (I/O, bandwidth). A recent performance benchmark completed by Intel and BlueData using the BigBench benchmarking kit has shown that the performance ratios for container-based Hadoop workloads on BlueData EPIC are equal to and in some cases, better than bare-metal Hadoop [7].

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Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its implementation in Sysbench. The illustrations below are taken from Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) while running this benchmark. Analyzing read/write workload by counts. More resources that you might enjoy.

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Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 49

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 21, 2019

Netflix engineers run a series of tests and benchmarks to validate the device across multiple dimensions including compatibility of the device with the Netflix SDK, device performance, audio-video playback quality, license handling, encryption and security. We use Spinnaker to deploy instances and host the API containers on Titus ?—?which

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Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Hardware optimization : You need to ensure that the CPU, memory, and storage components meet the performance requirements of the database workload. PostgreSQL performance optimization is an ongoing process involving monitoring, benchmarking, and adjustments to maintain high-performing PostgreSQL databases.

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Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

Last week we saw the benefits of rethinking memory and pointer models at the hardware level when it came to object storage and compression ( Zippads ). Microbenchmarks (MiBench) and the FreeBSD system call timing benchmarks show modest performance impact in some cases, and performance improvements in others (3.4% slower to 9.8%

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C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

The HBO sitcom Silicon Valley hilariously followed Pied Piper, a team of developers with startup dreams to create a compression algorithm so powerful that high-quality streaming and file storage concerns would become a thing of the past. In my benchmarks, Brotli:11 takes several hundred milliseconds to compress a single minified jQuery file.

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Cache Website Servers Open Source 80

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple Corporate is at fault, not Open Source engineers or the line managers who support them. As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. So is speedy resolution and agreement.

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Media Games Education Engineering 145

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

I guessed that maybe ChatGPT only knew about v2 since it was trained on open-source code from before September 2021 (its knowledge cutoff date) and v2 was the dominant format before that date. Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g., Right now, widely-used benchmarks for AI code generation (e.g.,

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Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.

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Performance Cache Network Servers 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

dashboard (open source), SpeedCurve and Calibre are just a few of them, and you can find more tools on perf.rocks. Geekbench CPU performance benchmarks for the highest selling smartphones globally in 2019. In 2015, Google introduced Brotli , a new open-source lossless data format, which is now supported in all modern browsers.

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Performance Cache Media Metrics 145