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Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking

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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

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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. The build has been tested on x64 Red Hat 8.X The build has been tested on x64 Windows 10 and 11.

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

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When you list the HammerDB directory you can now see a directory called “scripts” This directory contains CLI scripts to build, run, delete and query TPROC-C and TPROC-H workloads against all databases. If HammerDB is running on a separate system from the database under test then you should modify this value accordingly.

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How to deploy HammerDB CLI fast with Docker

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The TPC publishes an official Docker image on Docker Hub to enable the rapid deployment and testing of databases with HammerDB. This image includes example scripts to build schemas and test your databases with a single command. Our Linux test system is running a MariaDB 10.10 Database Configuration.

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HammerDB v4.2 New Features Pt1: MariaDB Build and Test Example with the CLI

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However, as the two databases diverged from a shared common codebase, this presented a challenge in that it was not possible to modify the workload for MySQL or MariaDB without also changing the other. Also, the additional installation of the MySQL client libraries was needed when testing MariaDB. Prior to HammerDB v4.2 HammerDB v4.2

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

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Configuring the Jobs Database The base configuration is set in the xml files in the config directory with the jobs SQLite database being set in the commandline section of generic.xml by specifying the filename. 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

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HammerDB v4.6 New Features Pt2: Jobs Interface

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In particular, after a running a test it would be ideal to have a repository where we could verify the configuration of the workload that was run, the results and any timing or transaction count data generated to bring all the log output into a central location. . <commandline> This happens for both a schema build and running a test.