Scalegrid

JUNE 22, 2020

MySQL is the all-time number one open source database in the world, and a staple in RDBMS space. MySQL DigitalOcean Performance Benchmark. In this benchmark, we compare equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid MySQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases for MySQL. Read-Intensive Throughput Benchmark.

Database 217

Database Benchmarking Latency Performance 217

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

As an open source database, it’s a highly popular choice for enterprise applications looking to modernize their infrastructure and reduce their total cost of ownership, along with startup and developer applications looking for a powerful, flexible and cost-effective database to work with. PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test.

Database 230

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance 230

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?

Open Source 244

Open Source Tuning C++ Database 244

Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

ScyllaDB is an open-source distributed NoSQL data store, reimplemented from the popular Apache Cassandra database. In fact, according to ScyllaDB’s performance benchmark report, their 99.9 This number is more inline with our recent 2019 Open Source Database Trends Report where 56.9% year for a total of 48 cores.

Big Data 187

Big Data Database Open Source Azure 187

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

DORA compliance initiatives can help drive a risk-based approach to application security, including exposure management, security testing, threat detection and response, and software supply chain security. Conduct digital operational resilience testing to simulate various scenarios. Critical systems testing. Penetration testing.

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Government Infrastructure Analytics 264

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

MySQL is the number one open source database that’s commonly hosted through Azure instances. 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.

Azure 137

Azure Database Benchmarking Performance 137

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Because they’re separate, they allow for faster release cycles, greater scalability, and the flexibility to test new methodologies and technologies. However, the distributed system of a microservices architecture comes with its own cost: increased application complexity and convoluted testing. Migration is time-consuming and involved.

Architecture 278

Architecture Artificial Intelligence Cloud Open Source 278

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters. And to ensure the quality of a product, we always need to test — on a number of devices, and in a number of conditions. What’s a representative device to test on in 2021? Kelvin Omereshone. State Of Mobile 2021.

Mobile 142

Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

AWS is the #1 cloud provider for open-source database hosting, and the go-to cloud for MySQL deployments. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. MySQL Performance Benchmark Configuration. MySQL Performance Test Scenarios and Results. Amazon RDS. Instance Type. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below).

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AWS Latency Performance Performance Testing 183

Dynatrace

AUGUST 3, 2022

Spring4Shell is a critical vulnerability that emerged in March of 2022 that affects the Spring Java framework, an open-source platform for Java-based application development. The Spring framework is popular because it enables software engineers to more easily write and test code to maintain modular applications.

Java 261

Java Traffic Benchmarking Strategy 261

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.

Testing 164

Testing AWS Lambda Network 164

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Troubleshooting a session in Edgar When we started building Edgar four years ago, there were very few open-source distributed tracing systems that satisfied our needs. Our tactical approach was to use Netflix-specific libraries for collecting traces from Java-based streaming services until open source tracer libraries matured.

Infrastructure 238

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 238

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system many organizations use to store and manage their data. Two benchmarks from users can be found here: [1] [2] 4. One of the key benefits of using PostgreSQL is its reliability, scalability, and performance. Pgpool-II This is where the pgpool-II comes in.

Cache 138

Cache Open Source Benchmarking Database 138

Percona

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. Benchmarking AWS RDS DLV setup Setup 2 RDS Single DB instances 1 EC2 Instance Regular DLV Enabled Sysbench db.m6i.2xlarge Get in touch

AWS 117

AWS Benchmarking Performance Traffic 117

Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Although the default configuration simulates loading based loosely upon TPC-B, it is nevertheless easy to test other use cases by writing one’s own transaction script files. A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash tps, lat 11.718 ms stddev 3.951 progress: 4440.0 tps, lat 11.075 ms stddev 3.519 progress: 4445.0

Benchmarking 141

Benchmarking Metrics C++ Database 141

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

JavaScript benchmark. It's the fastest device I've ever tested. Mark Szulyovszky : Would I have thought 3 years ago that we end up building a mobile tech stack on Microsoft’s & Facebook’s open source code, wishing that Google’s and Apple’s clunky and slow middle layer would disappear?

Internet 35

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 35

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. Quality assurance: How do you plan to test? Have you built a testing environment? Percona, for example, has helped hundreds of companies migrate to open source.

Database 107

Database Open Source Benchmarking Strategy 107

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 . uname -a Linux ubuntu19 5.3.0-rc3-custom

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Performance Hardware C++ 63

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.

Availability 132

Availability Database Open Source Hardware 132

Testsigma

MAY 19, 2020

Software testing is the process of finding bugs or discrepancies in a software. As a beginner in software testing, you would make your own mistakes and learn from them to shape your career path. Following are a few common mistakes often made by software testing beginners when they start their journey in the world of testing.

Software 85

Software Software Testing Open Source 85

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

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 This explains, in part , how PostgreSQL performed better out of the box for this test workload. The throughput didn’t double but increased by 57%.

Tuning 145

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 145

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. You should not only monitor the backup mount for disk space and backup log but also regularly test the restores and log to match RPO and RTO objectives.

Performance 136

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 136

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

A lot of useful information can be retrieved from this schema, for example, table metadata and foreign key relations, but trying to query I_S can induce performance degradation if your server is under heavy load, as shown in the following example test. The same tests have been executed in Percona Server for MySQL 5.7

Cache 124

Cache Hardware Servers Benchmarking 124

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.

Benchmarking 63

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 63

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. I couldn’t see any adverse effect on the TPS on quick tests.

Database 142

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 142

SQL Performance

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The common trend is to choose a VM based exclusively on vCPU, memory, and storage capacity without benchmarking the current IO and throughput requirements. I put each of these VMs to a test using CrystalDiskMark. Benchmark Test. The number 5 is the number of iterations of the test that will be run. Generation.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

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

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

Example: Creating four simple tables to store strings but using different data types: db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb1 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text char(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec) db1 test> CREATE TABLE tb2 (id int auto_increment primary key, test_text varchar(200)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.05

Open Source 111

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 111

HammerDB

OCTOBER 18, 2018

An essential part of database performance testing is viewing the statistics generated by the database during the test and in 2009 HammerDB introduced automatic AWR snapshot generation for Oracle for the TPC-C test. With this feature Oracle generates a wealth of performance data that can be reviewed once the test is complete.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Monitoring Performance C++ 40

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To figure out what exactly is the problem, we can use FFMPEG , which is open source and free, and proves to be one of the most reliable tools to optimize videos. In FFMPEG, the principal quality/size benchmark is the Constant Rate Factor (CRF) compression, with values ranging from 0 (no compression) to 50 (high compression).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Percona

JULY 25, 2023

ibd in the test directory. For example, mysql datadir/test/t1.ibd. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd Benchmarks xtrabackup –prepare on backup directory of other sizes like 10K, 50K, 100K, and 250K tables. CREATE TABLE test.t1(a a INT PRIMARY KEY, b INT); The CREATE TABLE statement creates a file called t1.ibd ibd > t1.sdi

Cache 98

Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 98

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.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

HammerDB

MAY 26, 2022

If you are not already familiar with the programming languages that HammerDB uses, then this earlier post serves as an ideal introduction to what makes up the highest performing GIL free database benchmarking application. The build has been tested on x64 Red Hat 8.X The build has been tested on x64 Windows 10 and 11.

C++ 115

C++ Database Servers Open Source 115

Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

Benchmark before you decide. The optimal value can be decided after testing multiple settings, starting from eight is a good choice. Each of them has its own limits and advantages: for example, XFS is fast in deleting large files, while EXT4 can provide better performance on fast SSD drives, and ZFS on Linux has progressed a lot.

Performance 144

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 144