Making GREAT CPUs for Databases

Picking CPUs for databases is still a topic of great complexity in 2025 with CPU vendors making different chips catering to database licenses. Note, we picked AMD EPYC CPUs just given their performance on our database benchmarks and because there are a lot of different options for optimization around databases. Plus, we had them around since AMD had sent the chips. We have to say AMD is sponsoring this video.

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00:00 Introduction
02:49 Types of Databases
05:50 Database Licensing
07:03 Server Processors for Databases
14:39 Small Database Big Performance Cheat Code
16:20 Key Lessons Learned