HammerDB Case Studies

Highlighted Case Study

A privilege for HammerDB to work with such a strong engineering team at MariaDB and see OLTP performance
increase by 2.5X in just six months.

Our collaboration helped surface and validate the improvements featured in the latest MariaDB Enterprise Server release.
Read the full article on the MariaDB site:

Read the MariaDB blog post

2025

• Performance benefits of new Amazon EC2 R8a memory-optimized instances
• Optimized Memory Tagging on AmpereOne® Processors
• Simplify admin tasks while maintaining steady performance with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0
• Solving Mid-Market Challenges With AMD Technologies
• Google Cloud C4 VMs + Intel® Xeon® 6 Delivers Instant AI ROI and Breakthrough Time to Value
• Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 VMs powered by Arm Neoverse deliver higher performance and efficiency for key workloads
• Red Hat : How to run performance tests using benchmark-runner
• PostgreSQL on AWS Optimized by Intel Delivers Impressive 2.4x Performance Gains and Lower TCO
• AMD : Winning at Every Core Count: Maximizing Performance, Minimizing Software Licensing Costs
• 2X OLTP Performance with AKS and Portworx: Benchmarking SQL Server in Azure
• Performance Engineered: MariaDB Enterprise Server 11.8 Accelerates OLTP Workloads by 2.5x
• Which VMs Work Best in Microsoft Azure® Data Processing and AI Operations?
• Dell PowerEdge R770 Server Database Workload Benchmarking using TPROC-C
• Introducing MariaDB Exa: 1,000x Faster Analytics on Live Data
• Design Guide — MySQL InnoDB Cluster on Dell EMC PowerStore T
• SQL Server High Availability with Dell PowerFlex and Nutanix Cloud Platform
• Microsoft Workloads on AWS Optimize CPUs best practices for SQL Server workloads
• Safeguard your data while maintaining SLAs by enabling Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT)
• Microsoft SQL Server Performance on Intel® Xeon® 6 Processors
• Efficiency Meets Value: AMD EPYC™ 4005 Series Processors
• PhoebeDB Demos - HammerDB TPC-C 23.5 Million TPM
• Cut server infrastructure costs over five years with the Dell PowerEdge R7715
• ARM:Learn how to Tune PostgreSQL
• Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
• Nutanix™ NX Servers Deliver Scalable Performance for PostgreSQL Database
• Dell 17G PowerEdge Servers & Broadcom Emulex LPe38102 64G SecureHBA 64G FC HBA Post-Quantum Security Features & Performance
• Single-instance Oracle Database on OpenShift Virtualization
• Memory Tiering Performance VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
• Benchmarking SQL Server BlackBox Hosting vs Azure 2025
• Benchmarking SQL Server BlackBox Hosting vs AWS 2025
• Propel your business with one-socket Dell PowerEdge R7715 (EPYC 9355)
• Consolidate with Supermicro H14 Hyper Dual Processor (EPYC 9474F)
• PostgreSQL Thread: [RFC] Enhance scalability of TPCC on high-core-count systems
• Hyper-V 2025 on FlexPod
• Database Benchmarking: An Unexpected Journey
• Dell PowerEdge R770 — TPROC-C Benchmarking
• Lock Prediction for Zero-Downtime Database Encryption
• Nutanix NX — Oracle Database 21c Performance
• Dell PowerEdge R7715 — EPYC 9355 (refresh infographic)
• Dell PowerEdge R7725 — EPYC 9755
• Oracle GoldenGate: SQL Server Precise Instantiation
• Aurora PostgreSQL on Graviton4 R8g
• Seven legacy servers vs one Dell PowerEdge R7625
• I/O-intensive PostgreSQL on EBS io2 Block Express
• AMD EPYC 9005 vs Intel Xeon 6
• Dell PowerEdge R7725 — consolidation/analytics infographic
• Dell PowerEdge R7715 — refresh infographic
• AWS DMS 3.5.4 data masking & performance
• Lenovo ThinkAgile HX665 V3 + Nutanix — Oracle 21c
• Boost OpenShift DB VM density with memory overcommit
• DBtune and HammerDB: fair PostgreSQL benchmarking
• Tutorial: Datenbank-Last-Test mit HammerDB
• Linux kernel: Reduce default slice to avoid extra tick
• Scalable DB performance with OpenShift Virtualization (OOTB)
• Intel Xeon 6: power & efficiency in the AI era
• Intel Xeon 6 performance index
• EDB says it tops Oracle and others in benchmarks
• Scaling Postgres AI workloads with AlloyDB Omni on Silk
• Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Nutanix
• Benchmark OLTP performance on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
• Fivetran: data pipeline latency analysis
• Emulex Secure HBAs: in-flight encryption
• Fivetran: data pipeline throughput analysis
• Server consolidation with vSphere 8 U3 memory tiering
• AlloyDB Omni on DS220 G2 and VSP One Block
• Intel & Cintra optimize Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
• Learn how to tune PostgreSQL
• Improving enterprise app performance with Nutanix and Intel
• Optimizing SQL Server 2022 on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V4
• Reference Architecture: SQL Server on SR665 V3 (AMD 5th Gen)
• Optimizing SQL Server 2022 on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V4
• Save up to $2.8M consolidating with Supermicro H14 (EPYC 9475F)
• KIOXIA CD8P NVMe SSDs: encryption performance brief
• The AMD Advantage for AI and data centers
• How to improve SQL Server performance and maximize efficiency
• Benchmarking PostgreSQL-compatible DBs with HammerDB (YouTube)

2024

• Microsoft Azure VMs powered by AMD EPYC
• AlloyDB for PostgreSQL — sizing recommendations
• Reduce cost for SQL Server on AWS using Optimize CPUs
• Optimize Amazon RDS performance with io2 Block Express
• Load testing storage performance for SQL Server
• Reference Design: VCF on Lenovo ThinkAgile VX
• DR strategies for Amazon RDS SQL Server
• Amazon RDS for Db2 resources
• Accelerate manufacturing workloads in Azure with AMD
• MariaDB Server on Dell PowerFlex with Kubernetes
• AWS re:Invent: Reduce cost for SQL Server on AWS using Optimize CPU
• EPAS 17 scaling breakthrough
• Inside Azure innovations
• Parameters that impact Aurora Serverless v2 scaling
• ACU range and scaling in Aurora Serverless v2
• Save power & license costs with Dell PowerEdge C6615
• Faster analytics on Dell PowerEdge R7625 (EPYC 9654)
• Hyperthreading impact on SQL Server OLAP in the cloud
• Reduce Microsoft licensing costs with 4th Gen AMD
• Use HammerDB to test Amazon RDS for Db2
• Non-virtualized PostgreSQL on Hitachi Advanced Server HA820 G3
• Best practices for databases on IBM FlashSystem
• Notes on tuning Postgres for CPU/memory benchmarks
• Run more VMs with VMware vSphere 8 U3
• Replication lag study in PostgreSQL
• Data sovereignty & AI-driven transformation (GITEX)
• OpenShift containers tuning guide for AMD EPYC 9005
• Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL with Redshift (GA)
• 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors lead enterprise & cloud
• 5th Gen AMD EPYC demos
• Advancing AI 2024
• Intel Xeon 6 MySQL OLTP
• Ecosystem readiness for 3rd Gen AMD EPYC
• Consolidate into Dell PowerEdge C6615 nodes
• Design Guide — MySQL InnoDB Cluster on Dell PowerStore
• Increasing SQL Server 2022 performance with Intel Xeon
• Virtualized DB I/O improvements in RHEL 9.4
• KIOXIA PM7 SAS SSDs vs SATA for SQL
• AI on Intel Xeon — partner enablement
• Azure Arc SQL MI on Dell PowerFlex — test harness
• Get started with AlloyDB Omni on VMs
• PostgreSQL on OCI Ampere A2
• Virtual Client: PostgreSQL (HammerDB)
• Top Tcl repositories
• AlloyDB Omni Installation Guide
• Breaking storage speed limits in Azure SQL MI
• Laravel Sail with Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL on Dell PowerFlex with NVMe/TCP
• GCP C3D confidential instances — performance
• GCP C3D vs C2D — generational gains
• VMware modernization partner package
• Performance testing replication with SIOS DataKeeper
• Window Function Expression: Let the Self-Join Enter
• vCPU scale-up test for PostgreSQL on Nutanix
• Scale-out test for PostgreSQL on Nutanix
• 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors lead enterprise & cloud
• Dell R7615 + 100GbE Broadcom NICs for MySQL
• Deploy VCF 5.1 on next-gen Dell PowerEdge
• SQL Server Filegroups — test & validation
• HammerDB & PostgreSQL — Part I
• Enhance DB performance with RDS dedicated log volumes
• JD Cloud lightweight cloud host performance evaluation
• Benchmarking Tessell HPC for PostgreSQL on Azure
• Enhance AWS DB performance with Intel
• AlloyDB Omni using HammerDB on DS220 G2 & VSP One
• AlloyDB Omni Hitachi certification results
• DB2 on Dell APEX Block Storage for Azure — best practices
• Confidential computing performance with AMD SEV-SNP
• SQL Server 2022 at the Edge with ThinkAgile MX455 V3
• Test third-party agents for compatibility on Exadata
• PostgreSQL on EC2 R7i vs R6i
• Benchmark RDS for PostgreSQL Single/Multi-AZ vs Cluster
• Optimize CPU — best practices for SQL Server
• How Intel helps MariaDB become faster
• Optimizing SQL Server 2022 on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX650 V3
• Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift
• Dell + AMD EPYC: healthcare solution brief
• Emulex Gen7 FC HBA vs Gen6
• Performance testing SQL Server on Nutanix
• Upgrade cloud infra with PowerEdge R760 + VCF 5.1
• Huge performance gains — Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• AlloyDB for enterprise workloads — Accenture
• SQL Server instance best practices (Intel PowerEdge + PowerMax)
• Encrypted storage without performance hit (KIOXIA)
• APEX Block Storage SDC on Azure VM (SQL Server)
• Do PowerEdge R450/R550 meet SMB needs?
• Provision Premium SSD v2 for SQL Server on Azure VMs
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server (AMD EPYC)
• Benchmarking Tessell HPC for PostgreSQL on Azure
• GigaOm: Fivetran HVR vs Qlik Replicate
• Azure SQL Database Hyperscale vs AWS database (v2)
• MySQL on EC2 C7i/C6i/C5
• Build AI-ready apps on Azure SQL Hyperscale
• Azure SQL Database Hyperscale vs AWS database
• SQL Server Filegroups — testing & validation
• Databases & virtualization reach new highs
• OpenShift Virtualization — performance & scale
• My Journey Into Performance Benchmarking (YouTube)
• Backup & restore SQL Server with Nutanix Volumes + T-SQL snapshots
• Nutanix X-Ray release notes