Python is a popular programming language, especially for beginners, and consequently we see it occurring in places where it just shouldn’t be used, such as database benchmarking.  In contrast, a frequent question when it comes to HammerDB is why is it written in Tcl? Surely any language will do? This post addresses both questions to illustrate exactly why HammerDB is written in Tcl and why using Python to benchmark a database can result in poor performance and misleading results.  To do this, we are going to rewrite HammerDB in Python and run a series of tests on a 2 socket … Continue reading Why Tcl is 700% faster than Python for database benchmarking