RESEARCH

TCO for Data Masking and TDM Solutions

By [email protected] / October 27, 2023 / Comments Off on TCO for Data Masking and TDM Solutions

The increasingly complex landscape of data management for enterprises has brought to light the need for tools to manage diverse platforms and provide overall management. These tools focus on efficient test data management; integration, lifecycle management, security, compliance, and storage optimization. We determined that for the equivalent usage (consisting of typical deployment, provisioning, and masking…

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Edge Bare Metal Benchmark: Lumen vs AWS: An Exploration of Edge Cloud Services: From Bare Metal to Private Cloud

By [email protected] / August 23, 2023 / Comments Off on Edge Bare Metal Benchmark: Lumen vs AWS: An Exploration of Edge Cloud Services: From Bare Metal to Private Cloud

This report focuses on the latency of two top bare-metal server providers: Lumen Edge Cloud Services (Lumen) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). For our testing, we defined a high-performance model, mixing applications that can process 1,000 transactions per second and demand a maximum latency of 5ms or less, while the NGINX reverse proxy handles HTTP…

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Cloud Data Warehouse vs. Cloud Data Lakehouse: A Snowflake vs. Starburst TCO and Performance Comparison

By [email protected] / August 23, 2023 / Comments Off on Cloud Data Warehouse vs. Cloud Data Lakehouse: A Snowflake vs. Starburst TCO and Performance Comparison

Recently, several architectural patterns have emerged that decentralize most components of the enterprise analytics architecture. Data lakes are a large part of that advancement. A field test was devised to determine the differences between two popular enterprise data architectural patterns: a modern cloud data warehouse based on a Snowflake architecture and a modern data lakehouse…

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Digital Analytics and Measurement Tools Evaluation: Google Analytics 4 and Snowplow

By [email protected] / August 23, 2023 / Comments Off on Digital Analytics and Measurement Tools Evaluation: Google Analytics 4 and Snowplow

We performed a field test to assess how Snowplow compares to GA4 for a retail organization that realizes the mandate for digital analytics. To make the test as fair as possible, we used both Google Analytics and Snowplow in vanilla e-commerce implementations. This means that for both solutions, we used the out-of-the-box e-commerce events. Contact…

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Video SDK Benchmark Comparison

By [email protected] / August 23, 2023 / Comments Off on Video SDK Benchmark Comparison

This benchmark report provides insight into how well Zoom and Jitsi supports enterprise applications requiring real-time customer engagement. We capture time to value by assessing the steps involved in initial setup, scaled deployment, and production integration, and we assess TCO by evaluating both software and labor costs associated with a deployment. The benchmark can also…

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Transaction Processing & Price-Performance Testing: Distributed SQL Databases Using Cloud Managed Services Evaluation: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB Dedicated & YugabyteDB Managed

By [email protected] / July 24, 2023 / Comments Off on Transaction Processing & Price-Performance Testing: Distributed SQL Databases Using Cloud Managed Services Evaluation: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB Dedicated & YugabyteDB Managed

To evaluate distributed databases, we conducted a Transactional Field Test derived from the industry-standard TPC Benchmark™ C (TPC-C). We compared fully-managed as-a-service offerings of cloud-distributed databases: Contact us for the report.

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Cloud Analytics Top Data base Performance Testing report: Exasol outstrips Snowflake and another major cloud data warehouse for performance and price-performance

By [email protected] / July 24, 2023 / Comments Off on Cloud Analytics Top Data base Performance Testing report: Exasol outstrips Snowflake and another major cloud data warehouse for performance and price-performance

You should never have to sacrifice budget control to improve the performance of your analytics database. Exasol’s no-compromise analytics database takes care of this for you, delivering significant productivity gains, cost-savings and flexibility, without any trade-offs. Don’t just take our word for it, read the latest report conducted by McKnight Consulting Group, on Cloud Analytics Database Performance…

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SQL Transaction Processing and Analytic Performance Price-Performance Testing: Microsoft SQL Server Evaluation: Azure vs. Amazon Web Services

By [email protected] / May 22, 2023 / Comments Off on SQL Transaction Processing and Analytic Performance Price-Performance Testing: Microsoft SQL Server Evaluation: Azure vs. Amazon Web Services

This report outlines the results from two Field Tests (one transactional and the other analytic) derived from the industry-standard TPC Benchmark™ E (TPC-E) and TPC Benchmark™ H (TPC-H). The tests compare two IaaS cloud database offerings running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), configured as follows: Contact us for the report.

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Total cost of ownership: NATS vs Kafka

By [email protected] / May 22, 2023 / Comments Off on Total cost of ownership: NATS vs Kafka

A total cost of ownership (TCO) comparison against several real-world, and comparable workloads for NATS and Kafka for streaming. Users want to know if the “simplicity” is a trade-off vs functionality or performance. Get the report here.

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New Microsoft Teams Performance Benchmark

By [email protected] / March 30, 2023 / Comments Off on New Microsoft Teams Performance Benchmark

Microsoft Teams (Teams) is a collaboration platform that combines workplace chat, video meetings, file storage, and application integration. It is part of the Microsoft 365 suite of applications and is designed to help teams stay organized and connected. Teams allows users to communicate and collaborate in real-time, share files, and access applications from a single…

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