All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. s prices by 70%. For example, in our US East (N.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? A finely tuned database processes queries more efficiently, leading to swifter results.

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Percona

AUGUST 27, 2018

assigning to a specific CPU) is a manageable resource, represented by the concept of “virtual CPU” as a term that includes CPU cores, hyperthreads, hardware threads, and so forth. Then we need to see IF implementing the tuning will work or not. It is possible to do more tuning in the case that ETL is too compromised. References.

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It progressed from “raw compute and storage” to “reimplementing key services in push-button fashion” to “becoming the backbone of AI work”—all under the umbrella of “renting time and storage on someone else’s computers.” Cloud computing? ” scenarios at industrial scale.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The best part is that we are also significantly expanding the free tier many of you already enjoy by increasing the storage to 25 GB and throughput to 200 million requests per month. More than a decade ago, Amazon embarked on a mission to build a distributed system that challenged conventional methods of data storage and querying.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

Out of the box, the default PostgreSQL configuration is not tuned for any particular workload. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning? Why is PostgreSQL performance tuning important?

Tuning 52

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Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Resource allocation: Personnel, hardware, time, and money The migration to open source requires careful allocation (and knowledge) of the resources available to you. Evaluating your hardware requirements is another vital aspect of resource allocation. Look closely at your current infrastructure (hardware, storage, networks, etc.)

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Scalegrid

AUGUST 30, 2024

This fine-tunes operational access inside RabbitMQ and facilitates complex naming conventions for resources and sophisticated rules regarding access. When persistent messages in RabbitMQ are encrypted, it ensures that even in the event of unsanctioned access to storage hardware, confidential information stays protected and secure.

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Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic. Well, here we are – with storage autoscaling for databases in Kubernetes, slated for release in Q1, 2024 after a year of hard work. It’s worry-free and doesn’t require human intervention.

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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. MyRocks is shipped in Percona Server for MySQL.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 27, 2020

The basic tier provides up to 5 DTUs with standard storage. The standard tier supports from 10 up to 3000 DTUs with standard storage and the premium tier supports 125 up to 4000 DTUs with premium storage, which is orders of magnitude faster than standard storage. New Hardware Configuration for Provisioned Compute Tier.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

PostgreSQL Cluster One coordinator node citus-coord-01 Three worker nodes citus1 citus2 citus3 Hardware AWS Instance Ubuntu Server 20.04, SSD volume type 64-bit (x86) c5.xlarge Redundancy can potentially decrease overall performance. A future blog will continue my exploration into Citus by scaling out pgbench into other architectures.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

It’s important to note that recommended throughput levels may vary depending on factors such as operating system type, network bandwidth availability, and hardware quality. Best Practices for Redis Performance Tuning Optimizing memory allocation is essential for improving Redis’s performance.

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SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

Back in 2014, I wrote an article called Performance Tuning the Whole Query Plan. Finding a small number of distinct values might seem like quite a specific requirement, but I have come across it fairly frequently over the years, usually as part of tuning a larger query. Test Environment. Final Thoughts.

Servers 86

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

As we saw with the SOAP paper last time out, even with a fixed model variant and hardware there are a lot of different ways to map a training workload over the available hardware. Different hardware architectures (CPUs, GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, …) offer different performance and cost trade-offs.

Hardware 58

Hardware Latency Serverless Energy 58

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. Storage: The system has a SATA drive for the operating system and one NVMe (Intel SSD D7-P5510 (3.84 Database: MySQL 8.0.31

Performance 55

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Percona

AUGUST 29, 2023

Among its many capabilities, a Citus cluster can: Create distributed tables that are sharded across a cluster of PostgreSQL nodes to combine their CPU, memory, storage, and I/O capacity. Columnar storage of tables can compress data, speeding up scans and supporting fast projections, both on regular and distributed tables.

C++ 98

C++ Database Storage Testing 98

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2018

Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability. In other words, whether the workload is dominated by reads or writes. Why should you care?

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Database Operating System Architecture 72

The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

Optane DIMMs have lower latency and higher bandwidth than storage devices connected over PCIe (including Optane SSDs), and present a memory address-based interface as opposed to a block-based NVMe interface. The guidelines… provide a starting point for building and tuning Optane-based systems. Optane DIMMs are here!

Scalability 59

Scalability Latency Cache Media 59

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The main objective of this post is to share my experience over the past years tuning MongoDB and centralize the diverse sources that I crossed in this journey in a unique place. systemctl stop tuned $ systemctl disable tuned Dirty ratio The dirty_ratio is the percentage of total system memory that can hold dirty pages.

Best Practices 52

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

These nodes and edges require a good amount of compute and storage which is typically distributed across a large number servers either running in the cloud or your own data center. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware. The software is error-prone and hardware failures are inevitable.

Latency 63

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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

Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Linux has been adding tracing technologies over the years: kprobes (kernel dynamic tracing), uprobes (user-level dynamic tracing), tracepoints (static tracing), and perf_events (profiling and hardware counters). Appliance manufacturers hire kernel engineers to develop custom features, including storage appliances.

Virtualization 75

Virtualization AWS Engineering Hardware 75

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level. InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . driver: intel_pstate CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 .

Best Practices 40

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Stable Media Stable media is often confused with physical storage. SQL Server defines stable media as storage that can survive system restart or common failure. Stable media is commonly physical disk storage, but other devices and certain caching facilities qualify as well.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

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.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

On multi-core machines – which is the majority of the hardware nowadays – and in the cloud, we have multiple cores available for use. now has a version which will support parallelism for SELECT queries (utilizing the read capacity of storage nodes underneath the Aurora cluster). With faster disks (i.e. AWS Aurora (based on MySQL 5.6)

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Cache C++ AWS Airlines 72

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. that a lot of people used.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ The storage ​​ space that is required ​​ for the sparse file is only that of the actual bytes written to the file and not the ​​ maximum ​​ file ​​ size.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is limited by the disk space; it can’t expand storage elastically; it chokes if you run few I/O intensive processes or try collaborating with 100 other users. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Hear how AWS infrastructure is efficient for your AI workloads to minimize environmental impact as you innovate with compute, storage, networking, and more. It’s possible to get energy data in real time from NVIDIA GPUs (because NVIDIA provides it) but not from AWS hardware.

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