Executive Summary.......................................................................................3 Measuring Performance in a Database........................................................3 A Sampling of Benchmark Results ..............................................................5 eWeek Database Benchmark....................................................................5 SysBench Scalability Benchmark (Sun Solaris)........................................6 hmark (Sun V40z)...........................................7 SysBench Scalability Benchmark (SGI Linux Itanium 2)...........................7 SPECjAppServer2002 Benchmarks..........................................................9 Conclusion....................................................................................................10 About MySQL ...............................................................................................10 Appendix: Benchmarking Tools.................................................................11 The eWeek Nile eCommerce Benchmark...............................................11 SysBench.................................................................................................11 SPEC and TPC........................ ...