How Stormatics optimized PostgreSQL workloads with DBtune

This article originally appeared as “PostgreSQL Tuning and DBtune” on Stormatics’ blog.

Stormatics documented their experience leveraging DBtune to fine-tune PostgreSQL configuration in an attempt to improve performance and reduce query run time.

The blog notes that DBtune consistently enhanced query runtime and throughput across all test cases, achieving significant performance gains. Notably, it delivered a speedup of 13.6 times over the default settings in one instance. Additionally, compared to manual tuning, DBtune improved query runtime by 2.2 times.

Stormatics specializes in providing professional PostgreSQL services for small and medium-sized businesses, focusing on ensuring reliable scalability, minimizing downtime, and enhancing performance and security of critical data systems.