SQL Bench

What is SQL Bench?

• This benchmark suite is meant to tell any user what operations a given SQL implementation performs well or poorly.

Install on Ubuntu

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/sysbench/sysbench/0.4.12/sysbench-0.4.12.tar.gz
tar -xzvf sysbench-0.4.XX.tar.gz
cd sysbench-0.4.XX

Edit configure.ca:

#AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_PROG_RANLIB

Run

./autogen.sh

and your are ready to

./configure && make && make install

Create the test mysql database

mysql -u root -p yourpassword
create database sbtest;
grant all on *.* to ‘root’@'%’;

How to Use SQL-Bench?

• You will need to navigate to the SQL Bench script folder

cd /usr/share/sql-bench

• once you have navigated to the location list the directory to see the scripts.

ll

• you should see the following

bench-count-distinct  copy-db                innotest1   innotest2a  README            test-ATIS        test-insert
bench-init.pl         crash-me               innotest1a  innotest2b  run-all-tests     test-big-tables  test-select
Comments              Data                   innotest1b  limits      server-cfg        test-connect     test-transactions
compare-results       graph-compare-results  innotest2   output      test-alter-table  test-create      test-wisconsin

How To Run a Test

• Once within the scripts folder /usr/share/sql-bench you will need to execute the script these are PERL scripts to execute them as follows.

perl run-all-tests