Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results will help database administrators and decision-makers choose the right platform for their performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency needs. Introduction Purpose and Scope Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL solutions are increasingly popular among organizations seeking scalable, high-performance databases.

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Percona

AUGUST 31, 2018

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. 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. wal_buffers.

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Percona

MARCH 23, 2023

When it comes to enterprise-level databases, there are several options available in the market, but PostgreSQL stands out as one of the most popular and reliable choices. PostgreSQL is a free and open source object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) that has existed since the mid-1990s.

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

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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 tuned your environment?

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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.

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Scalegrid

JULY 29, 2019

MySQL is a free open source relational database management system that is leveraged across a majority of WordPress sites, and allows you to query your data such as posts, pages, images, user profiles, and more. We help you configure your MySQL deployment to optimize your performance based on the size of your databases.

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SQL Performance

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Many database administrators find themselves having to support instances of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), or at least the backend databases that are required for SSRS. In each of the deployment models, the role of the database administrator is to make sure that SSRS is stable, dependable, and recoverable.

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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. I won’t cover all the features but show just enough that you’ll want to see more of what you can learn to accomplish for yourself.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 15, 2020

SQL Server has always provided the ability to capture actual queries in an easily-consumable rowset format – first with legacy SQL Server Profiler, later via Extended Events, and now with a combination of those two concepts in Azure SQL Database. Unfortunately, my excitement was short lived for a couple of reasons.

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Dynatrace

JULY 22, 2024

Using OpenTelemetry, developers can collect and process telemetry data from applications, services, and systems. Observability Observability is the ability to determine a system’s health by analyzing the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. There are three main types of telemetry data: Metrics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Note: Contrary to what the name may suggest, this system is not built as a general-purpose time series database. Those use cases are well served by the Netflix Atlas telemetry system. Effectively managing this data at scale to extract valuable insights is crucial for ensuring optimal user experiences and system reliability.

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Percona

APRIL 24, 2023

Indexes are generally considered to be the panacea when it comes to SQL performance tuning, and PostgreSQL supports different types of indexes catering to different use cases. I keep seeing many articles and talks on “tuning” discussing how creating new indexes speeds up SQL but rarely ones discussing removing them.

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2018

For optimum performance, a PostgreSQL database depends on the operating system parameters being defined correctly. Poorly configured OS kernel parameters can cause degradation in database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these parameters are configured according to the database server and its workload.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 21, 2024

As a major version approaches its end-of-life date, users must understand the implications of ceased support and how these specific dates impact their operational systems. Staying informed about upcoming EOL dates and planning migrations accordingly is crucial to avoid disruptions and maintain system integrity. Apr-14 Oct-18 MongoDB 3.0

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tuning thousands of parameters has become an impossible task to achieve via a manual and time-consuming approach. JVM, databases, middleware, operating system, cloud instances, etc) by also taking advantage of Dynatrace full-stack observability. SREcon21 – Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning.

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Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? That’s a heritage of the LAMP model when the same server would host both the database and the web server.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2022

Interestingly, our partner RedHat reported in 2021 that around 80% of deployed workloads are databases or data caches, storing data in persistent volume claims (PVCs). You also decide to run your database for storing user uploads – such as images or videos – directly in Kubernetes. Stay tuned.

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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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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. MySQL was the database for phpWebLog, for example, way back in 2000. The project signaled intent to support other databases as early as the 0.7.1 or later or MariaDB 10.3

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 29, 2024

All the errors seem to be caused by requests for a specific product ID or a faulty entry in the product database. So, stay tuned for more enhancements and features. This query confirms the suspicion that a particular product might be wrong. You can even walk through the same example above. This is just the beginning.

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Percona

APRIL 13, 2023

PostgreSQL is a popular open source relational database management system that is widely used for storing and managing data. Replication lag is the delay between the time when data is written to the primary database and the time when it is replicated to the standby databases. What is replication lag?

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Latency Tuning Open Source Network 86

DZone

JANUARY 23, 2021

If you need to dynamically trace Linux process system calls, you might first consider strace. So are there any tools that excel at tracing system calls in a production environment? This blog post introduces perf and traceloop, two commonly used command-line tools, to help you trace system calls in a production environment.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google provide a wide spectrum of serverless services for compute and event-driven workloads, databases, storage, messaging, and other purposes. In addition, Davis provides automatic alerting of service-to-service communication problems using queues and other event systems.

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Percona

JANUARY 3, 2019

Please join Percona’s Senior Software Engineer, Ibrar Ahmed as he presents his High-Performance PostgreSQL, Tuning and Optimization Guide on Friday, January, 4th, at 8:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 11:00 AM EDT (UTC-4). PostgreSQL is one of the leading open-source databases. Thus, any system with least resources can run it. Register Now.

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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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Percona

AUGUST 10, 2018

The performance of a PostgreSQL database can be compromised by dead tuples, since they continue to occupy space and can lead to bloat. Now, though, it’s time to look at autovacuum for postgres, and the internals you to know to maintain a high performance PostgreSQL database needed by demanding applications.

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Scalegrid

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. There will be a short duration (tens of seconds) during which you will lose connectivity to your database due to the failover, but this can be overcome by having application-level retries.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

For busy site reliability engineers, ensuring system reliability, scalability, and overall health is an imperative that’s getting harder to achieve in ever-expanding, cloud-native, container-based environments. To set the stage, let’s have a quick recap of what Prometheus is and what it does. What is Prometheus?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 16, 2022

An ideal RASP technology does not need training or fine-tuning to learn what bad application behavior looks like. These limitations include the following: High tuning and monitoring overhead. With RASP technology, you can distinguish between genuine information requests and malicious attacks. More time for vulnerability management.

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Tuning Cloud Open Source Network 234

Percona

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Our new eBook, “ From Planning to Performance: MongoDB Upgrade Best Practices ,” guides you through the entire process to ensure your database’s long-term success.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Think about items such as general system metrics (for example, CPU utilization, free memory, number of services), the connectivity status, details of our web server, or even more granular in-application tasks like database queries. Database monitoring Once more, under Applications & Microservices, we’ll also find Databases.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It would be a shame if your database crashed, after all. On modern Linux systems, the difference in overhead between forking a process and creating a thread is much lesser than it used to be.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

This is where large-scale system migrations come into play. By tracking metrics only at the level of service being updated, we might miss capturing deviations in broader end-to-end system functionality. Canaries and sticky canaries are valuable tools in the system migration process.

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 1, 2022

This article gives an overview of the system. As the system evolves to solve more and more use cases, we have expanded its scope to handle not only the CDC use cases but also more general data movement and processing use cases such that: Events can be sourced from more generic applications (not only databases).

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The Netflix TechBlog

AUGUST 13, 2020

You’re half awake and wondering, “Is there really a problem or is this just an alert that needs tuning? Our streaming teams need a monitoring system that enables them to quickly diagnose and remediate problems; seconds count! Our Node team needs a system that empowers a small group to operate a large fleet. By Andrei U.,

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Monitoring Tuning Traffic Metrics 215

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Both logs are crucial in the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties of database systems. Crash recovery: In the event of a system crash or restart, the undo log helps restore the database to a consistent state by applying the necessary undo operations based on the recorded before-images.

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