Database Benchmarking and Stress Testing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Decisions on Architecture and Technology

Provide evidence-based answers that can be measured and relied upon by your business. Database administrators will be able to make sound architectural decisions in a fast-changing landscape of virtualized servers and container-based solutions based on the empirical method presented in this book for answering “what if” questions about database performance.

Today’s database administrators face numerous questions such as:

• What if we consolidate databases using multitenant features?

• W...