At TechMikeNY, we don't just sell refurbished servers - we obsess over finding the optimal configurations for even the most demanding enterprise workloads. Over the past 20 years, we've shipped thousands of database servers running everything from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP, and HANA.
That experience has taught us that not all database servers are created equal. The wrong hardware can lead to poor query performance, unplanned downtime, and expensive overprovisioning. That's why we put every database server we sell through a rigorous testing process using 4 key benchmarks:
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Multi-User Transaction Processing: We test the server's ability to handle a high volume of simultaneous database requests without any slowdown. This is critical for applications like retail point-of-sale systems that need to scale seamlessly.
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Data Protection & Recovery: We validate each server's fault tolerance by simulating power failures and drive losses to ensure data integrity is never compromised.
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Query Performance Under Load: Database performance can suffer when needed most, such as on an e-commerce site during the holiday rush. We stress test our servers under intense, variable query loads to ensure consistent response times.
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Database Size Scaling: Your hardware needs to keep up as your data grows. We test each server's storage architecture to confirm it can maintain high performance.
Together, these four benchmarks provide a comprehensive assessment of a database server's capabilities. They ensure that the server can handle the diverse and demanding workloads of modern enterprises - from handling high-volume transactions to protecting against data loss to delivering reliably fast query results even as databases grow. By rigorously testing each server against these criteria, we're able to offer our customers hardware that's optimized for their real-world needs.
These ideas and standards don't come from a vacuum; they evolve through our continuous conversations with customers. As we configure and deliver thousands of machines for customers all over the world, we learn from an enormous variety of scenarios—both the strong points and pitfalls. Whether it's optimizing for a particular database engine, accommodating unconventional data models, or pushing the boundaries of performance, our team loves the challenge of solving new problems. By partnering with customers at the forefront of their industries, we're able to engineer servers that don't just meet today's demands, but anticipate tomorrow's.
We recently helped a customer configure a database server for Kinetica DB, a distributed, in-memory database designed for big data and machine learning. Kinetica leverages high speed and capacity memory configurations and GPU acceleration across multiple nodes to deliver insights into data at a rapid pace. The configuration ended up having three terabytes (Yes, 3TB) of 2666MHz RAM, 24TB of NVMe storage with 2x new M.2 BOSS drives for the OS and 112 cores.
By continuously pressure testing our hardware against these real-world scenarios and reviewing the performance of delivered machines, we're able to deliver database servers that are cost-effective, dependable, and future-proof. You'll get the perfect balance of processing power, high-speed memory, redundant storage, and intuitive management tools - all without the sticker shock of big cloud providers.
Are you curious about the specific hardware we recommend? Check out our top pick for Best General Purpose Database Server. If you need help selecting the ideal configuration for your unique workload, our team is always happy to lend our expertise. And of course, visit our CTO to configure your own server.
At TechMikeNY, performance isn't an afterthought - it's our obsession. Let us build you a database server that passes the tests that matter.