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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

On the other hand if testing MySQL or MariaDB for the ability to handle a more complex workload such as the use of stored procedures and in particular if looking to compare scalability with a traditional database then HammerDB is focused more towards testing those enterprise features. Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Steve Shaw.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. I also applied Six Sigma to capacity planning and presented this at a conference in 2003.

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WebPageTest API

CSS - Tricks

Here’s the real news though: there’s a full-on scalable API now. And if you need even more than that, you can talk to them and they’ll get you sorted—they have scaling-friendly pricing, making it more affordable than other SaaS performance testing tools. You can build your own performance tools.