{"id":1970,"date":"2026-06-30T13:16:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hammerdb.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T13:17:19","slug":"hammerdb-v6-0-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hammerdb.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/hammerdb-v6-0-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"HammerDB v6.0 is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At TPCTC 2025 in London, we set out where HammerDB was heading next: not just repeatable database benchmarking, but making the evidence behind a benchmark easier to save, review and share.<\/p>\n<p>HammerDB v6.0 is now live.<\/p>\n<p>This release adds result artifacts that can be saved, reviewed and shared through the TPC-Council community results repository on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>A benchmark number on its own is not enough. The workload, system, configuration and metrics behind the result matter too.<\/p>\n<p>HammerDB v6.0 provides a cleaner path from a test run to open, transparent database performance evidence.<\/p>\n<h2>New in HammerDB v6.0<\/h2>\n<p>The main new features in HammerDB v6.0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Result artifacts<\/strong> for saving, reviewing and sharing benchmark results.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automated benchmark pipelines<\/strong> for repeatable database performance testing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Profile comparisons<\/strong> to compare benchmark runs and identify what changed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ASH-style analysis for MySQL and MariaDB<\/strong> to show waits, contention and database activity during a workload.<\/li>\n<li><strong>System discovery<\/strong> to capture platform details as part of the benchmark result.<\/li>\n<li><strong>I\/O metrics<\/strong> to record IOPS and throughput alongside the benchmark output.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Response Time percentiles <\/strong> and sampling for enhanced l<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Community result sharing<\/h2>\n<p>The result artifact is the first step in making HammerDB benchmark results easier for the community to share and review.<\/p>\n<p>It captures the key information behind a run, including the workload, database, system, configuration, metrics and result data. This gives users more context than a single performance number and makes it easier to understand how a result was produced.<\/p>\n<p>These are HammerDB community results. They are not audited TPC benchmark results, but they provide an open way for users to share benchmark evidence through the TPC-Council GitHub workflow.<\/p>\n<h2>Database support<\/h2>\n<p>HammerDB continues to support Oracle, SQL Server, Db2, PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB.<\/p>\n<p>HammerDB v6.0 supports TPROC-C for transactional workloads and TPROC-H for analytical workloads.<\/p>\n<h2>Follow-up posts<\/h2>\n<p>This is the first in a short series of posts on HammerDB v6.0.<\/p>\n<p>Follow-up posts will look in more detail at result artifacts, automated benchmark pipelines, profile comparisons, ASH for MySQL and MariaDB, system discovery and I\/O metrics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hammerdb.com\/download.html\">Download HammerDB v6.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TPCTC 2025 in London, we set out where HammerDB was heading next: not just repeatable database benchmarking, but making the evidence behind a benchmark easier to save, review and share. HammerDB v6.0 is now live. 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