Open Source Services

Independent database performance advisory, open source pricing.

Partnership

Sponsor a Spotlight

Feature your platform on our homepage in the Innovation spotlight with a vendor-labeled deep-dive into real HammerDB workloads.

30-day exclusive homepage feature
HammerDB expert validation of your solution
Direct links to your products and solutions
Open-source pricing: FREE (Promote your fully OSS solution for FREE) → part OSS/part proprietary → $10,000 (fully proprietary)

We ♥ open source. Contact us to promote your solution to the widest community of database performance professionals.

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Advice & Consultancy

Expert services

Unlock the secrets vendors don’t share. We’re Oracle-to-open-source specialists and the authority on like-for-like benchmarking.

Independent advice: Specialists in commericial vs. open source comparisons
Cost modeling (hardware, cloud, licenses)
Migration assessment with quantified risk & savings
Open-source pricing: FREE (If your team says it "Can't be done", we'll advise you on your next steps for Free, no commitment) → Save more than you already spend in legacy licensing and support

We ♥ open source. Contact us to discuss scope, dates, and deliverables.

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Feature Enabling

Fund features and enhancements that matter to you and the community.

New architecture support such as ARM64
New databases or database extensions
Additional database driver support
Advanced CLI/GUI features
Custom metrics or integration plugins
Priority bug fixes & enhancements
Open-source pricing: FREE (Raise an Issue on GitHub) → accelerated development.

We ♥ open source. Your sponsorship accelerates innovation for everyone using HammerDB.

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Benchmark-as-a-Service (BaaS)

Cloud Automation

Currently in development: a fully automated, cloud-hosted benchmarking pipeline for all of your favorite databases powered by HammerDB.

Self-service benchmark job submission
Pre-built TPROC-C / TPROC-H workloads
Detailed NOPM/TPM results & scaling curves
Secure, reproducible environments
Usage-based pricing

We ♥ open source. Be the first to try it for FREE — early-access partners welcome..

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About HammerDB Ltd

We help you spend less on databases and database tools. With the industry-standard open-source HammerDB and hands-on expertise, we reveal where you overpay and your lower cost alternatives, so you can negotiate hardware, software license, and cloud spend from a position of knowledge and power.

Our mission. We are so passionate about how much you can save by moving to open source, we will help you for FREE, cutting through the fear, uncertainty, and doubt around database performance. We specialize in helping CTO's see what the price lists and license fine print hide. When an incumbent DBA team insists you can’t go open source and their single-stack tools only measure one engine at a time, we run comparable, repeatable tests with HammerDB quantifying risk and value, turning that entrenched “can’t” into an evidence-backed migration plan and measurable savings for your business.

Who we are. Founded by Steve Shaw— ex-Intel Principal Engineer, board member of the MariaDB Foundation and co-author of Pro Oracle 10g RAC on Linux and Pro Oracle 11g RAC on Linux—we’re a lean team blending next-generation AI engineers with deep database performance veterans and key partners. We keep overhead low so the savings flow to you.

Bottom line: Stop paying inflated license fees for infrastructure, databases and add-on tools— there’s a faster, cheaper, open-source path with data you can trust. We'll show you how.

Steve Shaw — Founder — **Steve Shaw**
Founder

Contact & Offices

Head office (mail)

3rd Floor, 86–90 Paul Street
London, England EC2A 4NE
United Kingdom

Collaborate onsite

Farnborough Business Park, The Hub
Airport Business Park, Fowler Ave
Farnborough GU14 7JF
United Kingdom

How to get help

First-level support is available through the Documentation. Performance updates and guides are posted to the HammerDB Blog.

Community & developer support on GitHub

Keep HammerDB Free — ⭐ Us on GitHub

License

HammerDB is released under the GNU General Public License Version 3.

Copyright & Trademarks

HammerDB is copyrighted to HammerDB Ltd and hosted by the TPC Council. The application “HammerDB”, workload names “TPROC-C” and “TPROC-H”, and metric “NOPM” are subject to copyright.

Logo usage

The HammerDB Logo and “H” Logo are owned by HammerDB Ltd and may be reproduced in their original color form only. Where the logo has a link, it must lead to http://www.hammerdb.com.