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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. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? Surely any language will do? Background and Concepts.

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What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter?

HammerDB

HammerDB is a load testing and benchmarking application for relational databases. All the databases that HammerDB tests implement a form of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control). On high-performance multi-core systems all the supported databases can return performance in the many millions of transactions per minute.

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Grafana Dashboards: A PoC Implementing the PostgreSQL Extension pg_stat_monitor

Percona

This PoC demonstrates how to install and configure pg_stat_monitor in order to extract useful and actionable metrics from a PostgreSQL database and display them on a Grafana dashboard. Grafana database backend: Prometheus version 2.15.2+d A script executing a benchmarking run: #!/bin/bash

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HammerDB for Managers

HammerDB

HammerDB is a software application for database benchmarking. It enables the user to measure database performance and make comparative judgements about database hardware and software. Databases are highly sophisticated software, and to design and run a fair benchmark workload is a complex undertaking.

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CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment

The Morning Paper

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. Most programs (almost 800 C programs in the FreeBSD source tree) require no modifications.

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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. What programming languages does HammerDB use and why does it matter? GETTING STARTED ON LINUX.

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

HammerDB

Docker build, example CLI scripts were added to build and run the TPROC-C workload in the Tcl language. these were enhanced to also add Python based scripts, and to include scripts for both TPROC-C and TPROC-H and a driver script for Linux environments. With the HammerDB v4.5 In HammerDB v4.6 With HammerDB v4.7

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