Benchmarking MySQL made easy
Monday, January 23rd, 2006Hey there!
Just wanted to let you guys in on a great tool that I’ve been using a lot to test and benchmark different drops of MySQL. Quest Software has done a real nice job with Benchmark Factory in creating a visual tool that easily allows you to run many different TPC and other benchmark tests against MySQL. It creates the schemas, populates them with data (yep, you can customize how much data you want…), runs the tests, and then gives you nice charts, graphs, and excel spreadsheets of the results. It’s about as painless as it gets. If you’re testing out new platforms or different variations of MySQL, you should check it out.