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How to Assess MySQL Performance

HammerDB

Instead, focus on understanding what the workloads exercise to help us determine how to best use them to aid our performance assessment. Benchmarking the target Two of the more popular database benchmarks for MySQL are HammerDB and sysbench. We will not concern ourselves with the raw throughput of workload. 4.22 %usr 38.40

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The top 5 reasons to run your own database benchmarks

HammerDB

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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A peculiar throughput limitation on Intel’s Xeon Phi x200 (Knights Landing)

John McCalpin

There was no deep goal — just a desire to see the maximum GFLOPS in action. The exercise seemed simple enough — just fix one item in the Colfax code and we should be finished. This is an uninspiring fraction of peak performance that would normally suggest significant inefficiencies in either the hardware or software.

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