April 2023 Summaries

Azure Tessell for Oracle PaaS is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to leverage the scalability, reliability, and agility of Azure for Oracle database management. As the only Oracle PaaS on Microsoft Azure, Tessell offers a fully managed DBaaS platform that allows customers to deploy Oracle databases with up to 1 million IOPS on Azure infrastructure at a predictable cost. Tessell supports high-performance Oracle workloads and facilitates seamless migration of large monolithic Oracle databases to Azure, offering cost savings on Oracle licenses and hosting. It provides zero data loss protection, point-in-time recovery, and integrates with Azure native services such as Active Directory and Key Vault. Tessell enhances FinOps and operational efficiencies by enabling easy setup of secondary environments like UAT, QA, and Dev, and offers 10x performance over on-premises or other cloud technologies. Customers can use their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment or pay-as-you-go options to procure Tessell, which is co-sell incentivized by Microsoft, driving cost savings that can be redirected for further innovation.

The article details the process of benchmarking MySQL database engines on the AWS cloud using the Sysbench tool to evaluate the performance of Tessell's RDS MySQL instance compared to AWS RDS. It involves setting up an environment with specific configurations, including provisioning a Tessell RDS MySQL instance and an Amazon EC2 instance for Sysbench, and configuring MySQL server items. The benchmarking tests include running write-only, read-only, and read-write load tests, capturing various metrics such as queries per second and latency. Results indicate that Tessell RDS delivers significantly higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) than AWS RDS for the same Sysbench workload at a comparable cost, with Tessell RDS achieving 321% higher IOPS, demonstrating its superior performance efficiency.

The article explores the performance benchmarking of Oracle database engines on AWS cloud, specifically comparing Tessell RDS and AWS RDS using the SLOB benchmarking tool. The setup involves provisioning a Tessell RDS Oracle instance with 8 vCPUs and 64 GB RAM and an Amazon EC2 instance in the same VPC to minimize latency. Detailed steps for installing and configuring the Oracle client and SLOB tool are provided, including setting up security groups and environment variables. The benchmarking process involves configuring SLOB parameters and running performance tests, which show Tessell RDS achieving significantly higher IOPS and throughput than AWS RDS, with Tessell delivering 1,103% higher IOPS for the same SLOB workload.