benchANT News

In this edition of the DataScaleFail newsletter, we share our findings about the price updates of the IaaS and DBaaS flavours of the benchANT database ranking. Also, we continue our Vector benchmarking journey where we first look into what is special when benchmarking this type of databases. Finally, we complete our analysis of benchmarking suites for Vector databases. Newsletter topics:

• Database Ranking - Cloud & DBaaS Pricing Update
• Benchmarking Vector Databases
• Vector DB Benchmarking Suites

Due to many VectorDB benchmarking requests popping up at benchANT, we start with a discussing on the situation of the DeWitt clause with Vector DBaaS's. Second, we continue our analysis of benchmarking suites and look into the time-series domain today. Finally, we introduce Telegraf-TS, a benchmark tailored to backends of the Telegraf monitoring agent.

Our topics today:

• VectorDB Benchmarking
• Time-Series Benchmarking Suites
• The Telegraf-TS Benchmark

We continue our analysis of benchmarking suites in the NoSQL area and have analysed more than 12 NoSQL benchmarks. In addition, new benchmark measurements on MongoDB DBaaS alternatives as well as a technical deep-dive on how to customise the YCSB Benchmarking Suite almost limitlessly.

Newsletter contents:

• 12 NoSQL Benchmarking Suites
• MongoDB DBaaS Alternatives - Performance/Cost Comparison
• YCSB Customising Guide

The DataScaleFail newsletter starts the new year 2024 a little bit later due to some customer projects. Nevertheless, we have again some interesting benchmark measurements on the new Azure VMs, a specialized recap of 2023 and our benchmark suite lists, which now also contain OLAP and HTAP benchmarking suites

Have fun reading!

Topics:

• OLAP & HTAP Database Benchmarking Suites
• New Azure VMs Benchmark
• Recap 2023

In the last newsletter edition of this year, we have done some research on database benchmarking suites and listed them with a lot of helpful information for you. Also, we give you a 101 on database configuration tuning and Daniel recaps his experiences of the AWS reInvent 2023 regarding database market news.

We hope you all had a successful year in 2023 and we were able to you some interesting stuff to read.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Topics:

• List of Database Benchmarking Suites
• How-To: PostgreSQL Configuration Tuning
• Recap of the AWS reInvent 2023

In this week's newsletter, we have new, compelling content for you. Starting with a beginner intro to Database-as-a-Service with key insights and a TCO use-case story, performance tests of AlloyDB Omni, the self-deployed version of Google Clouds AlloyDB database and a deep-dive into PostgreSQL performance configuration parameters.

Read more!

Topics:

• AlloyDB Omni - The better PostgreSQL?
• PostgreSQL Performance Parameters
• DBaaS - What, when, how?

In this week's newsletter, we have one lesson learned article about benchmarking MongoDB, a cost/performance evaluation of MySQL DBaaS products and an in-depth performance benchmark with 133 measurements from MongoDB and ScyllaDB.

Read more!

Topics:

• How-to: MongoDB Capacity Planning
• In-depth PostgreSQL DBaaS Query Performance Analysis
• DBMS Auto-Tuning Tooling

In this week's newsletter, we have one lesson learned article about benchmarking MongoDB, a cost/performance evaluation of MySQL DBaaS products and an in-depth performance benchmark with 133 measurements from MongoDB and ScyllaDB.

Read more!

Topics:

• How-to: MongoDB Performance Benchmarking
• MySQL DBaaS Price/Performance Comparison
• MongoDB vs ScyllaDB - 133 Performance Benchmarks

After being overwhelmed by positive feedback for our first newsletter two weeks ago, we again did everything we could, provide you with three interesting and exciting articles.

Topics:

• PostgreSQL v16 Performance
• PostgreSQL DBaaS - Price/Performance Comparison
• MongoDB vs ScyllaDB - Technical Comparison

Welcome, this is the first edition of our brand-new DataScaleFail newsletter. From now on, we will send you bi-weekly the most interesting benchmarking results and insights from our daily work in the data infrastructure branch.

We will summarize our experiences and measurements on new databases and infrastructure options and send them directly to your inbox. We hope to provide you with valuable insights and content input for your daily work.

Read more!

Topics:

• How-to: MongoDB Performance Benchmarking
• MySQL DBaaS Cost/Comparison
• MongoDB vs ScyllaDB - 133 Performance Benchmarks

Release of the first version of the DBaaS Navigator, a holistic comparison of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) products

• technical features
• management features
• support and SLA performance
• performance figures
• price calculation and price performance

Update with all technical innovations of the past months

• Credits-based pricing model
• New FAQ section
• Addition of numerous DBMS and DBaaS resources (current complete list!)
• Revision of products and services
• Numerous bugfixes

Publication of the first version of our database ranking

• with 9 databases and DBaaS
• on 2 cloud providers
• in 5 scaling sizes (VM, Cluster Size & Workload)
• for a CRUD workload