HammerDB is an open source

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ...

benchmarking application developed by Steve Shaw. HammerDB supports databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, MySQL and MariaDB. HammerDB is written in

TCL TCL or Tcl or TCLs may refer to: Business * TCL Technology, a Chinese consumer electronics and appliance company **TCL Electronics, a subsidiary of TCL Technology * Texas Collegiate League, a collegiate baseball league * Trade Centre Limited ...

and C, and is licensed under the

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HammerDB is a database load testing and benchmarking tool. HammerDB is used to create a test schema, load it with data and simulate the workload of multiple virtual users against the database for both transactional and analytic scenarios. HammerDB makes it possible to run derived workloads of the industry standard TPROC-C & TPROC-H (known by trademarks TPC-C and TPC-H respectively) so they can compare and contrast systems, databases and database cloud services. HammerDB supports Oracle Database,

Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which ...

, IBM Db2, TimesTen,

MySQL MySQL () is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). Its name is a combination of "My", the name of co-founder Michael Widenius's daughter My, and "SQL", the acronym for Structured Query Language. A relational database ...

MariaDB MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. Development is led by some of the ori ...

, PostgreSQL,

Greenplum Greenplum is a big data technology based on MPP architecture and the Postgres open source database technology. The technology was created by a company of the same name headquartered in San Mateo, California around 2005. Greenplum was acquired ...

Postgres Plus Advanced Server EnterpriseDB (EDB), a privately held company based in Massachusetts, provides software and services based on the open-source database PostgreSQL (also known as Postgres), and is one of the largest contributors to Postgres. EDB develops and inte ...

Amazon Aurora Amazon Aurora is a relational database service developed and offered by Amazon Web Services beginning in October 2014. Aurora is available as part of the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). History Aurora offered MySQL compatible servic ...

and

Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse product which forms part of the larger cloud-computing platform Amazon Web Services. It is built on top of technology from the massive parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse company ParAccel (later acquire ...

. HammerDB also includes deprecated workloads for Redis and

Apache Trafodion Apache Trafodion is an open-source Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. It was originally developed by the information technology division of Hewlett-Packard Company and HP Labs to provide the SQL query language on Apache HBase ...

. HammerDB is developed in the languages

and C - this is to avoid a common 'feature' of

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and similar languages called the

Global Interpreter Lock A global interpreter lock (GIL) is a mechanism used in computer-language interpreters to synchronize the execution of threads so that only one native thread (per process) can execute at a time. An interpreter that uses GIL always allows exactly o ...

or GIL. HammerDB is hosted on Github by TPC-Council. The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is described as "a worldwide consortium that establishes standards intended to promote the fast, efficient and reliable execution of e-commerce and database transactions".

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External links

hammerdb.com

HammerDB on GitHub
{{DEFAULTSORT:HammerDB Free software testing tools Load testing tools Software using the GPL license Free software programmed in Tcl

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