With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things.
Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends
For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases.
To see how google stacks up with the commercial competitors I tried. MySQL,Oracle,SQL Server,Informix,Sybase
Check it out, it’s very cool
In a CPU-bound database workload, regardless of price, would you scale-up or scale-new? What if price was the driving factor, would you scale-up or scale-new? I am using as a baseline the first available AWS Graviton2 processor for RDS (r6g).
Read moreAs part of using public datasets with my own Benchmarking Suite I wanted upsize a dataset for larger volume testing. I have always used the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES data_length and index_length columns as a sufficiently accurate measurement for actual disk space used.
Read moreDuring my setup of benchmarking I run a quick test-sysbench script to ensure my configuration is right before running an hour+ duration test. When pointing to a Readyset cache where I have cached the 5 queries used in the sysbench test, but I have not run any execution of the SQL, throughput went up 10x in 5 seconds.
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