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

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Our distributed tracing infrastructure is grouped into three sections: tracer library instrumentation, stream processing, and storage. An additional implication of a lenient sampling policy is the need for scalable stream processing and storage infrastructure fleets to handle increased data volume. Storage: don’t break the bank!

Infrastructure 236

Infrastructure Transportation Storage Open Source 236

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

HammerDB

APRIL 19, 2023

Therefore, before we attempt to measure our database performance, we should know the system or cloud instance to be tested in detail. 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. Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04

Performance 54

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.

Database 109

Database Benchmarking Latency C++ 109

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 163

Testing AWS Lambda Network 163

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.

Azure 76

Azure Benchmarking Storage Virtualization 76

n0derunner

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads. As with traditional storage, applications are writing to a shared storage environment which is necessary to support VM movement. As with traditional storage, applications are writing to a shared storage environment which is necessary to support VM movement.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Benchmarking Testing Performance 40

Percona

MARCH 17, 2023

PMM2 uses VictoriaMetrics (VM) as its metrics storage engine. We have tested PMM version 2.33.0 Please note that the focus of these tests was around standard metrics gathering and display, we’ll use a future blog post to benchmark some of the more intensive query analytics (QAN) performance numbers.

Monitoring 104

Monitoring Scalability Cache Database 104

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 62

Benchmarking Open Source C++ Cache 62

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. The throughput didn’t double but increased by 57%.

Tuning 139

Tuning Cache Servers Benchmarking 139

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.

Performance 129

Performance Hardware Tuning Storage 129

Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Key metrics like throughput, request latency, and memory utilization are essential for assessing Redis health, with tools like the MONITOR command and Redis-benchmark for latency and throughput analysis and MEMORY USAGE/STATS commands for evaluating memory. It depends upon your application workload and its business logic.

Metrics 130

Metrics Monitoring Latency Cache 130

n0derunner

MAY 6, 2019

A 2007 paper, that still has lots to say on the subject of benchmarking storage and filesystems. Primarily aimed at researchers and developers, but is relevant to anyone about to embark on a benchmarking effort. A Nine year study of filesystem and storage benchmarking Download. The post New (Old) Paper.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Storage Cache Testing 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 14, 2023

In addition, we were able to perform a handful of A/B tests to validate or negate our hypotheses for tuning the search experience. This service leverages Cassandra and Elasticsearch for data storage and retrieval. When onboarding embedding vector data we performed an extensive benchmarking to evaluate the available datastores.

Media 296

Media Innovation Energy Architecture 296

The Morning Paper

AUGUST 29, 2019

use the TPC-H benchmark to assess Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Athena, Presto, Hive, and Vertica to find out what works best and the trade-offs involved. As it is infeasible to test every OLAP system runnable on AWS, we chose widely-used systems that represented a variety of architectures and cost models. Key findings.

Architecture 76

Architecture Cloud Storage Serverless 76

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 108

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 108

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.

Benchmarking 97

Benchmarking Latency Servers Systems 97

n0derunner

JULY 23, 2019

In this video I migrate a Postgres DB running PGbench benchmark. As the DB continues to run on the new host – the Nutanix storage detects the access patterns and “localizes” the data that the DB is accessing. Many different queries are executing in parallel, some hitting RAM cache, some hitting storage.

Benchmarking 76

Benchmarking Storage Cache Tuning 76

HammerDB

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are new to running Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL TPC-C workloads with HammerDB and have needed to investigate I/O performance the chances are that you have experienced waits on writing to the Redo, Transaction Log or WAL depending on the database you are testing. SQL> alter system flush buffer_cache; System altered.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Database C++ Virtualization 40

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. ibd in the test directory. For example, mysql datadir/test/t1.ibd. ibd2sdi data/test/t1.ibd This search tuple (key) is used to find the record to perform the undo operation.

Cache 89

Cache Servers Benchmarking Design 89

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 93

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 93

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 120

Database Benchmarking Open Source Latency 120

HammerDB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The TPC publishes an official Docker image on Docker Hub to enable the rapid deployment and testing of databases with HammerDB. This image includes example scripts to build schemas and test your databases with a single command. Our Linux test system is running a MariaDB 10.10 Our Linux test system is running a MariaDB 10.10

C++ 62

C++ Virtualization Database Benchmarking 62

n0derunner

DECEMBER 17, 2018

bssplit=64k/20:128k/20:256k/20:512k/20:1m/20 Normally storage benchmarks using large IO sizes are performed serially, because it’s easier on the storage back-end. The X-Ray files needed to run this test are on github. Unfortunately I only have 10Gbit networking in my lab! appeared first on n0derunner.

Performance 64

Performance Benchmarking Storage Network 64

HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. more transactions than system B in the fully audited benchmark then the HammerDB result was also 1.5X I.e. if system A generated 1.5X

C++ 40

C++ Benchmarking Virtualization Open Source 40

n0derunner

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Nutanix X-Ray is well known for being able to model IO/Storage workloads, but what about workloads that are CPU bound? For our purposes we are going to use Postgres DB and the built-in benchmarking tool PGbench. This time though the metric is Database transactions per second not IOPS or Storage throughput.

Performance 75

Performance Benchmarking Storage Database 75

HammerDB

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, after a running a test it would be ideal to have a repository where we could verify the configuration of the workload that was run, the results and any timing or transaction count data generated to bring all the log output into a central location. Jobs Configuration and Storage. and the following to run a test.

Virtualization 57

Virtualization C++ Storage Database 57

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This difference has substantial technological implications, from the classification of what’s interesting to transport to cost-effective storage (keep an eye out for later Netflix Tech Blog posts addressing these topics). As you can imagine, this comes with very real storage costs. Is this an anomaly or are we dealing with a pattern?

Latency 298

Latency Transportation Engineering Traffic 298

Percona

AUGUST 5, 2023

Otherwise, the storage engine does a scatter-gather and queries ALL partitions in a UNION that is not concurrent. This method distributes data evenly across partitions to achieve balanced storage and optimal query performance. You want to ensure that table lookups go to the correct partition or group of partitions.

Strategy 40

Strategy Storage Database Best Practices 40

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.

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Efficiency Performance 52

n0derunner

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” The simplest test is to run a single VM, with a single disk and issue a single IO at a time. This is a much more difficult test to conduct, and many end-users lack access and experience with tools that can give the full picture. The single VM test is using only a fraction of the cluster capacity. The post You are here.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Storage 40

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].

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

n0derunner

MARCH 13, 2020

Why do we tend to use 1MB IO sizes for throughput benchmarking? To achieve the maximum throughput on a storage device, we will usually use a large IO size to maximize the amount of data is transferred per IO request. For historical reasons, many storage testers will use a 1MB IO size for sequential testing.

Benchmarking 45

Benchmarking Storage Testing Performance 45

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 ). The CheriABI implementation is used to compile FreeBSD and PostgreSQL, then all of the respective test suites are run. For a macro-benchmark PostgreSQL’s initdb tool was used.

C++ 61

C++ Hardware Virtualization Benchmarking 61

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

As the MyRocks storage engine (based on the RocksDB key-value store [link] ) is now available as part of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 , I wanted to take a look at how it performs on a relatively high-end server and SSD storage. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD. Interested?

Database 41

Database Tuning Performance AWS 41

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. Depending on your setup, costs can include: Hardware devices (servers, storage devices, network switches, etc.)

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 112