HammerDB Benchmarks

2020

• What to Look for When Choosing Hyperconverged Infrastructure
  
• Performance of RHEL for Databases on Microsoft Azure Cloud
  

2019

• Benchmarking Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory – Here's our findings
  
• Top 25 Best Database Management Software
  
• Microsoft SQL Server Disaster Recovery Solution on Dell EMC VxFlex integrated rack
  
• We love SQL Server running on AWS almost as much as our customers
  
• AMD EPYC™ IN THE CLOUD:Microsoft SQL Server®2017 ON AZURE® WITH Ea AND Da SERIES INSTANCES
  
• Optimizing Oracle Database Efficiency and Performance with 32G End-to-End NVMe
  
• Make business decisions faster with value SAS and NVMe mainstream SSDs from KIOXIA
  
• Dell EMC Technical White Paper Using Dell EMC Unity Storage in an Equinix Cloud-Connected Data Center
  
• Gain on OLTP price-performance with Azure SQL Virtual Machines
  
• Optimize OLTP Performance with SQL Server on Azure VM
  
• Announcing Performance Optimized Storage Configuration for SQL Server on Azure VMs with SQL VM RP
  
• Oracle® Analytical Processing on NVMe™ – Test Results and Guide
  
• OracleDatabases on NetApp EF-Series
  
• How to deliver database workloads at low TCO
  
• Consolidate and Simplify Mixed Database Workloads
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 improves performance for modern workloads
  
• Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud at the lowest TCO
  
• Intel® Select Solutions for Hardened Security with Lockheed Martin
  
• Serve more customers with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 and 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
  
• Accelerating File System Metadata Access with Byte-Addressable Nonvolatile Memory
  
• Containers, Kubernetes & Databases
  
• Measurement of database management system capability
  
• Lenovo On Why Its Software-Defined Business Is Experiencing Triple-Digit Growth
  
• Formulus Black flogs SQL Server to performance frenzy
  
• Improve performance and minimize latency for IOintensive apps
  
• SECOND GENERATION Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
  
• Dell EMC VxFlex Family Overview
  
• Increasing data files might improve performance on General Purpose Managed Instance tier
  
• Huawei Relational Database Performance white paper
  
• Performance of vSphere 6.7 Scheduling Options
  
• Reference Architecture for Workloads using Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series
  
• A data management method for databases using hybrid storage systems
  
• Improve database performance with Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8180 and 8160 processors
  
• Intel® Select Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server* on Windows Server* v2
  
• Fact-checking the truth on TCO for running Windows workloads in the cloud
  
• Huawei Cloud SQL Server latest report: Performance leads the industry
  
• Persistent Memory Performance in vSphere 6.7 with Intel Optane DC persistent memory Performance Study - April 2, 2019
  
• Can SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance run on S2D twice as fast
  
• Engage Ludicrous Speed
  
• HammerDB SQL V-locity
  
• Performance White Paper - Huawei Cloud
  
• PostgreSQL: Experiences and tuning recommendations on Linux on IBM Z
  
• The Ultimate Dell PowerEdge R740xd Server vs. the Dell PowerEdge R730xd Server Comparison Guide
  
• Lenovo Reference Architecture: Microsoft SQL Server
  
• NVMe over RoCE Storage Fabrics eBook - Pure Storage
  
• MariaDB CEO accuses large cloud vendors of strip-mining open source
  
• SQL Server Migration and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950
  
• Analyzing the Possibilities of MariaDB and DirectFlash Fabric
  
• Oracle 18c Runs Faster with DirectFlash™ Fabric - NVMe-oF RoCE
  
• First Look: Intel vs AMD EPYC AWS Cloud (IaaS) Benchmarks
  
• Can SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance run twice as fast as SQL Server Basic Availability Groups in 2-node cluster? Part 1: Studying BAG performance
  

2018

• Cisco HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Databases with VMware ESXi 6.5
  
• An Efficient Hybrid I/O Caching Architecture Using Heterogeneous SSDs
  
• Huawei Cloud Relational Database Performance White Paper
  
• Running TPCC test on two synced PgRocks nodes ("multimaster")
  
• VALIDATING AWS EC2 SQL SERVER DEPLOYMENTS USING BENCHMARK TOOLS
  
• VALIDATING AZURE SQL SERVER DEPLOYMENTS USING BENCHMARK TOOLS
  
• Best Practices Guide for Databases on IBM FlashSystem
  
• New and Improved Services in Microsoft Azure
  
• SQL Server Performance Benchmarking on AWS
  
• Dell EMC Ready Solutions for Oracle with Data Protection
  
• PostgreSQL Best Practices: initial setup to an OLTP performance benchmark against Oracle
  
• Deploying WSFC and the SQL Server Failover Cluster on Alibaba Cloud ECS
  
• Cost Effective Workload Consolidation using the DataON Windows Server HCI Platform
  
• QxStack vSAN ReadyNode Solution Brief for Oracle® Database
  
• Persistent memory in VMware vSphere 6.7: what is it & how fast is it?
  
• Reference Architecture for Workloads using Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series
  
• NVMe SSDs for VMware vSAN - Are They a Good Choice?
  
• Persistent Memory Performance on vSphere 6.7
  
• Get answers faster by upgrading to a Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux 2017 Standard on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
  
• PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROSOFT SQL SERVER USING VMWARE CLOUD ON AWS
  
• Cisco HyperFlex All - Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server Database
  
• WHAT'S NEW IN PERFORMANCE? VMware vSphere 6.7
  
• HPE Scalable Persistent Memory - overhead measurement with VMware
  
• Accelerating instant Recovery: Cohesity Outperforms Veaam-Based System
  
• Making Hybrid IT Simple: Tips for Planning & Building Your Cloud Strategy
  
• Virtualization-based Security
  
• Lenovo Database Configuration Guide for Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on ThinkAgile SXM
  
• Accelerating Network Transformation for COSPs - Intel
  
• Alibaba Cloud Performance White Paper
  
• VSAN HammerDB Steady State TPM
  
• SQL Server Performance of VMware Cloud on AWS
  
• Toshiba Memory America Highlights Broad Range of SSD Application Solutions at Dell Technologies World
  
• A concrete example of migration between an Oracle Database and SQL Server using Microsoft Data Migration Assistant
  
• Oracle Database 12c Performance Characterization Tegile IntelliFlash T4700 All-Flash Storage Array
  
• Running “Large” Software on Wind River® Simics® Virtual Platforms, Then and Now
  
• ESG Lab Review: Dell EMC SC5020 Storage Array
  
• Creating Meaningful Test Results with DataCore MaxParallel for Windows Server
  
• The 5G Technology Your Future Depends On
  
• Unlock SQL Data Value with Fast SSDs - Micron Technology, Inc.
  
• Open Source on IBM Z: Experiences with PostgreSQL on Linux
  
• Alibaba Cloud Introduction to HammerDB
  
• According to Reason You Should Consider Microsoft SQL Server Database on VMware vSAN
  
• Reference Architecture for Workloads using the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series Appliances
  
• HammerDB Capture and Replay for Oracle Part III: Replay SQL on Destination Instance
  
• Webinar: How to Optimize SQL Server Instances You Can’t Control
  
• Best Practices for Oracle Database on HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage
  
• Turbo für MS-SQL-Server
  

2017

• Using Amazon Redshift performance tuning tips to reduce query times by 800%
  
• Accelerating Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Performance With NVDIMM-N on Dell EMC PowerEdge R740
  
• Dissecting Intel's EPYC Benchmarks: Performance Through the Lens of Competitive Analysis
  
• Intel Stacks Up Xeons Against AMD Epyc Systems
  
• Intel Presents Its AMD EPYC Server Test Results
  
• Intel Releases Benchmark Comparison to AMD EPYC and We Weigh In
  
• Lenovo Database Configuration for Microsoft SQL Server OLTP on Flex System with DS6200
  
• PowerEdge R740xd NVDIMM report - Principled Technologies
  
• Dell EMC Unity Storage with Oracle Databases
  
• The Dell EMC Unity 400F All-Flash storage array offered solid performance compared to the HPE 3PAR 8400
  
• Tencent Cloud
  
• Transactional NVM cache with high performance and crash consistency
  
• Benchmarking Like a PRO - SQLSaturday
  
• Evaluation of Chelsio Terminator 6 (T6) Unified Wire Adapter iSCSI Offload
  
• Microsoft Names Condusiv as First-Ever Software Vendor Certified for the MS-SQL I/O Reliability Program
  
• Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Supercharge Amazon Web Services’ Most Powerful Compute-Optimized Instances
  
• Consolidate your data analytics servers with the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd
  
• VMworld 2017 Extreme Performance Series: Byte-Addressable Nonvolatile Memory in vSphere
  
• VMworld 2017 Amplifying VMware vSAN™ Performance: A Deep Dive into Testing and Tuning (with Lessons Learned) by Western Digital®
  
• VMworld 2017 Redefine vSAN Deployments With Next Generation Intel Technology
  
• VMworld 2017 Extreme Performance Series: Benchmarking 101
  
• VMworld 2017 Extreme Performance Series: vSAN Performance Troubleshooting
  
• Pivot3 and Arrow Electronics Collaborate to Bring the Next Generation of HCI Solutions to the Market
  
• Cisco HyperFlex (and Managing multicloud environments)
  
• ESG Lab Test Results of Vexata VX-100 on Oracle RAC Workload Reveal Record-Setting Performance
  
• HammerDB Capture and Replay for Oracle Part III: Replay SQL on Destination Instance
  
• SQL Server 2017: Fast, faster, and the fastest database everywhere you need it
  
• DataCore tech cranks wheezing SQL Servers to ridiculous speeds
  
• QCT Announces Premier Intel Select Solution SQL Server Appliances
  
• HammerDB Capture and Replay for Oracle Part II: Converting Trace to Tool Command Language (TCL)
  
• Why we chose vSAN for our business critical apps
  
• Tuning Transactional Replication - SQLSaturday
  
• Tegile Drives Oracle @ the Speed of Memory
  
• How Intel benchmarks database performance using HammerDB
  
• HPE Integrity Superdome X 서버
  
• Microsoft SQL Team Puts V-locity to the Test
  
• Vexata presenting live Oracle demos at Oracle OpenWorld 2017a>
  
• Turn Massive SQL Data Into Real Insights 13X Faster Micron ® 5100 ECO 8TB SSD – Learn More From Your Data
  
• Oracle Database Best Practice with NeoSapphire Series
  
• Dell EMC FX2 Enterprise Database Workloads with Toshiba 12Gb/s SAS SSDs
  
• Reference Architecture: Microsoft SQL Server and VMware vSAN with ThinkSystem Server
  
• Real-World Microsoft SQL Server Performance on Datrium DVX
  
• Examining Latency of NVMe for Time-critical Applications Using Exceedance Analysis
  
• Benefits of NVMe NVRAM vs NVDIMM, a database application example
  
• How to migrate multi-tier applications to the cloud using Velostratas Runbook Automation
  
• AW206: “The Need for Speed:Sizing and Scaling Nutanix for Performance”
  
• The Intel Xeon Scalable – a Truly Big Day for the Data Center
  
• Comparing the Performance of Oracle Database 12c on a Disk Array vs. the Fusion ioMemory PCIe Application Accelerator
  
• High Performance Microsoft SQL Server Solution with Lenovo System x Servers, VMware All-Flash vSAN and SanDisk® Enterprise SSD
  
• Cisco HyperFlex All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server Database
  
• Memblaze Partners with Mellanox to Advance PBlaze SSD-based High Performance Oracle RAC
  
• Measuring Oracle Database 12c Performance on a Tegile All-Flash Array
  
• HPE Persistent Memory - Red Hat Summit 2017
  
• Identify, Migrate Applications to Cloud with Velostrata, VMware Infrastructure Navigator
  
• DBMS benchmakring overview and trends for Moscow ACM SIGMOD
  
• © Accelerate with IBM Storage: How to develop a workload baseline to evaluate Flash storage Part I
  
• Nutanix How it works: Testing hard disk failure
  
• Oracle Database 12c Performance Characterization Tegile IntelliFlash All-Flash Array
  
• HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 12c RAC Scaling on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 and HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 All Flash
  
• HPE Reference Architecture for Disaster Recovery solution with HPE Data Protector and HPE StoreOnce
  
• Improving Microsoft SQL Server Database performance with HPE Persistent Memory on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
  
• HammerDB Capture and Replay for Oracle
  
• Dear McAfee, Why are you destroying my buffer pool?
  
• Cisco HyperFlex 2.0 All Flash Systems Offer High Performance, Low Latency, and Consistent Results
  
• 8 Incredibly Useful Tools for Storage I/O Benchmarking
  
• Oracle 12c Databases on Hyper Converged Infrastructure using VMware vSphere 6
  
• A Closer Look at Intel's Optane SSD DC P4800X Enterprise SSD Performance
  
• SUPERMICRO ULTRA ALL-FLASH NVME SUPERSERVERS FOR REAL-TIME DATA PROCESSING
  
• Business DBs Demand All Flash Storage
  
• HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle 12c performance with Intel-based HPE NVMe Workload Accelerators on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
  
• Enhancing Database Performance with Cisco Nexus 9000 and Application Centric Infrastructure
  

2016

• Benchmarking Databases PGcon 2016
  
• Hammerdb Test for Oracle RAC with Memblaze® PBlaze SSD
  
• High Performance Solution for Oracle Database 12c with Lenovo x3650 M5 Server and SanDisk Fusion ioMemory
  
• Quickly Master Database Benchmarking
  
• Assessing Hyperconverged Performance: The Numbers that Matter
  
• Boosting Enterprise Transaction Processing using Hardware Acceleration
  
• Increasing Private Cloud Host Virtualization with Servers and SSDs
  
• Introducing MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 – Webinar
  
• IP-Maker’s NVMe RAM helps SQL Server 2016 hit 200,000 TPM for OLTP, with some help from a Virtex-7 FPGA
  
• VIRT9459: High Performance Software Defined Data Center for Business Critical Applications
  
• MICROSOFT SQL SERVER CONSOLIDATION SOLUTION FOR DELL EMC UNITY
  
• Getting It Right Exactly Once: Principles for Streaming Architectures
  
• HPE Reference Architecture for comprehensive DR solutions for HPE Hyper Converged platforms with VMware
  
• OLTP Performance on an All Flash NVMe + SATA Configuration – Storage Spaces Direct Cluster with 144 SQL Server VMs
  
• Hybrid Disk Drive Configuration on Database Server Virtualization
  
• SQL Server Instance Level Benchmarks with HammerDB
  
• Load Testing SQL Server Using HammerDB | Compute Engine | Google Cloud Platform
  
• Oracle Beats Amazon Web Services in Head-to-Head Cloud Database Comparison
  
• Comparison of Database Cloud Services
  
• Larry Ellison -- Oracle OpenWorld Keynote 09-20-2016 (@14-30 mins)
  
• HPE Reference Architecture for Oracle Database on HPE ProLiant DL580 Gen9 &HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8450 All-Flash
  
• HPE Integrity MC990 X shows significant OLTP performance improvement with HPE-ATX
  
• IP-Maker to showcase OLTP SQL acceleration
  
• REINVENT THE MISSION CRITICAL COMPUTING
  
• Western Digital Collaborates with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and VMware to Deliver the Industry’s First OLTP Performance Results for SQL Server 2016 Database on Virtual SAN
  
• SQL Server® 2016 Business Critical Performance on VMware All-Flash Virtual SAN
  
• Big Iron Xeons Get A Broadwell Compute And Memory Boost
  
• HPE's Superdome X: The Mission-Critical Scale-Up x86 Platform for SAP, Oracle and SQL Server
  
• SDDC hardware vendors you need to know
  
• Improving Oracle Database performance with HPE Persistent Memory on HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
  
• Using HPE ProLiant Servers and Fusion ioMemory-based HPE PCIe Workload Accelerators from SanDisk
  
• HammerDB TPC-C Workload, Open-Source Benchmark using Oracle Database 12c: SPARC T7-1 Performance Beats IBM S824, Beats x86 E5-2699 v3
  
• Huawei sets sights on mission critical
  
• All-Flash Versus Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN Performance vs. Price
  
• Impact of Nutanix VSS Hardware Support
  
• In the News: The FlexPod Performance Advantage for SQL Server
  
• Performance of Percona Server for MySQL on Intel® Server Systems using HDDs, SATA SSDs, and NVMe SSDs
  
• Flash Storage Doubles VMware vCloud Performance
  
• Backup and Recovery solution for HPE ConvergedSystem 700 with Veritas NetBackup and HPE StoreOnce
  
• Optimize VMware Virtual SAN 6 with SanDisk SSDs
  
• Intel Xeon Processor E5 Family Solutions
  
• Intel Launches New SSDs For Enterprise, Consumer and Embedded
  
• Comparison of solid state drives (SSDs) on different bus interfaces
  
• HPE Reference Configuration for Oracle 12c
  
• NetApp FlexPod Advantage: Performance, Agility, Economics
  
• Benchmark your SQL Server Instance - Technet Articles
  
• MAXio® All Flash Storage Array Popular Applications MAXio N1A6
  
• DATABASE SERVER PERFORMANCE COMPARISON: DELL POWEREDGE R630 VS. HP PROLIANT DL360 GEN9
  
• Cisco UCS SmartStack for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 with VMware: Reference Architecture
  
• Netlist Application Use Cases
• Pure Storage Reference Architecture for Oracle Databases
• Performance Analysis of NVMe SSDs and their Implication on Real World Databases

2015

• Performance brief HPE Integrity Superdome X OLTP performance with new technology
  
• Hybrid Cloud Scale Out Design for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 with Cisco Intercloud Fabric
  
• Virtual SAN Hardware Guidance and Best Practices
  
• Hammerdb Test for OracleRAC with Memblaze® PBlaze SSD
  
• Design and Architecture of Dell Acceleration Appliances for Database (DAAD): A Practical Approach with High Availability Guaranteed
  
• TYAN S7076 (Intel C612) Server Motherboard Review
  
• SanDisk Unveils New FlashSoft® Software for Enhanced Application Performance in Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Windows Server
• SanDisk Announces FlashSoft 3.8 With Updated Support for Windows, Hyper-V, & Linux
  
• The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
  
• SanDisk Introduces New All-Flash Reference Architectures and Enhanced Portfolio of Certified Flash Products for VMWare Virtual SAN™ 6
• Intel's DC P3608 SSD is ready to chew through big data
  
• Intel DC P3608 SSD: Intel’s new x8 NVMe SSD takes on billions of SQL Server 2014 data rows
  
• VMware vCloud Air Server StorageIOlab Test Drive with videos
• If VMware is a sun, here are the storage worlds we've spotted orbiting it
• Benchmarking Transaction Databases
• Load Testing with HammerDB
• HammerDB and The New SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
• HammerDB Performance Collection with SQL Server – Updated
• SQL Server Performance Tuning study with HammerDB - Set Up
• SQL Server Performance Tuning study with HammerDB – solving ACCESS_METHODS_DATASET_PARENT
• SQL Server Performance Tuning study with HammerDB – TOP 10 most costly SQL statements
• SQL Server Performance Tuning study with HammerDB – Flashsoft and PX600 unleash the full power
• SQL Server Performance Tuning study with HammerDB – Database Engine Tuning Advisor
  
• ORACLE-vs-MSSQL-vs-MariaDB
• Intel Xeon Processor E7 v3 Family Business Processing Benchmarks
  HP Integrity Superdome X Server delivers proof points for server consolidation
• HammerDB on Linux on Power (LoP) HOWTO
• Gathering Transaction Per Minute Metrics from SQL Server and HammerDB
• Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 19th East European Conference
• Resource Governor at Work with Azure Pack
• New! Virtual SAN 6.0 All-Flash RA:14 Million TPM and 3 Million NOPMs
• PernixData FVP Software and Microsoft SQL Server
  
• The Magic of Tuning in PostgreSQL
  
• Collecting Transaction Per Minute from SQL Server and HammerDB
  
• Performance Baselines and Benchmarks for Microsoft SQL Server
• How We Achieved 2 Million Transactions With All-Flash VSAN 6.0
• Benchmarking Transaction Databases
• Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server on Kaminarios K2 All Flash Storage Array

2014

• Dell Fluid Cache for Oracle 12c RAC - Principled Technologies
  
• Performance Testing MySQL and PostgreSQL with HammerDB and PGBench
  
• intel Oracle Openworld Keynote 2014 Silicon Photonics with HammerDB (@35-40 mins)
  
• An Approach for Hybrid-Memory Scaling Columnar In-Memory Databases (SAP HANA with HammerDB)
• Accelerating Virtualized Oracle 12c performance with Vsphere 5.5 Advanced Features Flash Read Cache and Vmotion
• Mission Critical Database performance: Intel Xeon Processor E7 v2 family vs.IBM Power7+
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 with AlwaysOn Using Cisco UCS C-Series Servers and Fusion ioMemory
• Microsoft SQL Server Acceleration Flash Buyer’s Guide
• Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800 v2 Product Family (Four-socket business processing performance benchmarks)
• ServerSmart - Chat 1 Recap: Datacenter ModernizationDell Fluid Cache for SAN - Principled Technologies
• PSAM; NEC PCIe SSD Appliance for Microsoft® SQL Server
• Proven Performance as a High Performance Microsoft SQL Server Database Solution Combining an NEC Express 5800 Scalable Enterprise Server and HGST FlashMAX II
• HGST Shows Off Zippy PCM Prototype, Updates Flash Cards
• Intel AES-NI Dupont POC
• SQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AAG) on Tintri
• Database as a service with Pure Storage and VMware

Updated November 2019  •