akopytov/sysbench

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

sysbench is a scriptable, multi-threaded benchmark tool built on LuaJIT, most commonly used for OLTP database benchmarks against MySQL and PostgreSQL. It also bundles CPU, memory, file I/O, threads, and mutex micro-benchmarks, and supports custom workloads written in Lua.

Use cases

• benchmark mysql database performance
• run oltp workload tests against postgresql
• measure cpu and memory performance of a linux server
• test filesystem io throughput
• generate database load with thousands of concurrent threads
• write custom benchmark workloads in lua
• measure latency percentiles under load

When to choose

• you need scriptable, multi-threaded database or system benchmarks with detailed latency statistics
• you want standard OLTP benchmark scenarios for MySQL or PostgreSQL
• you need low-overhead load generation with hundreds of millions of events per second

When to avoid

• you need distributed load testing across multiple machines
• you want a GUI-based benchmarking or monitoring tool
• you need application-level or HTTP API load testing rather than database/system benchmarks

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

benchmarking database databases performance developer-tools windows bsd cli oltp lua-scripts luajit mysql postgresql load-testing micro-benchmarks command-line linux macos

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