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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

HammerDB

Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking. We use stored procedures because, as the introductory post shows, using single SQL statements turns our database benchmark into a network test).

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How to build HammerDB from source

HammerDB

If you are not already familiar with the programming languages that HammerDB uses, then this earlier post serves as an ideal introduction to what makes up the highest performing GIL free database benchmarking application. Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands hammerdb>librarycheck. HammerDB-4.4-Linux.tar.gz

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HammerDB v4.8 New Features : Viewing your Benchmark results with the HammerDB Web Service

HammerDB

Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new Jobs on-disk database /opt/HammerDB-4.8/DATA/hammer.db Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new Jobs on-disk database /opt/HammerDB-4.8/TMP/hammer.DB So for example to change this to hammer.db DATA/hammer.db

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HammerDB v4.7 New Features Pt 2: Example CLI Scripts

HammerDB

Copyright (C) 2003-2023 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized SQLite on-disk database /home/steve/HammerDB-4.7/TMP/hammer.DB using existing tables (188,416 KB) SETTING CONFIGURATION Database set to MariaDB Benchmark set to TPC-C for MariaDB. /scripts/tcl/maria/tprocc/maria_tprocc.sh TMP/hammer.DB TMP/hammer.DB

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Web Performance Bookshelf

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These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications.

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How to deploy HammerDB CLI fast with Docker

HammerDB

Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw Type "help" for a list of commands Initialized new SQLite on-disk database /tmp/hammer.DB Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw. Benchmark set to TPC-C for MariaDB. Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw. Benchmark set to TPC-C for MariaDB. Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Steve Shaw.

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HammerDB v4.7 New Features Pt 3: Lightweight Docker Images for rapid testing

HammerDB

introduces more lightweight database specific Docker Images, so if you only want to run benchmarks against a specific database you can go from having no benchmarking environment to reviewing your results in as little as 3 commands. How to deploy HammerDB CLI fast with Docker HammerDB v4.7 Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser.