Performance

This article describes how Cloudflare scaled to support 55 million requests per second using 15 PostgreSQL clusters, and PostgreSQL’s scalability performance.

Query optimization is one of the core responsibilities of DBAs. This article introduces how to use metrics provided by pg_stat_statements for macro-level PostgreSQL query optimization.

Let performance data speak: Why PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open-source relational database, aka the world’s most successful database. MySQL vs PostgreSQL performance showdown and distributed database reality check.

Although PostgreSQL provides pgbench, sometimes you need sysbench to outperform MySQL.

FIO is a convenient tool for testing disk I/O performance