sysbench

Spec sheet

Purpose

sysbench is a scriptable, multithreaded benchmark tool based on LuaJIT, most often used for database benchmarks.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Intended users

The README describes sysbench for database benchmarking and for building custom system workloads, so it is aimed at users who can run command-line benchmarks and configure scripts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Free plan

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Security

GitHub reports that the project has no detected security policy and no published security advisories.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The repository provides GitHub Issues for project questions and bug reports.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

The repository lists the project under the GPL-2.0 license.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Bundled benchmarks

Bundled benchmarks cover OLTP-like database workloads, filesystem I/O, CPU, memory, threads, and POSIX mutexes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

CLI or automation

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Concurrency

The README says sysbench has low overhead with thousands of concurrent threads and can generate and track hundreds of millions of events per second.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Custom benchmarks

Users can create benchmarks by implementing predefined hooks in Lua scripts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Custom test profiles

YesRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Custom workloads

Users can create benchmarks by implementing predefined hooks in Lua scripts.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Database support

Build instructions describe MySQL support by default and PostgreSQL support as an optional build configuration.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Linux availability

Linux packages are offered through package repositories for x86_64, i386, and aarch64, with installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, and Arch Linux.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Linux packages

The README describes Linux binary packages for x86_64, i386, and aarch64, with installation instructions for Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, and Arch Linux.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Lua interpreter

sysbench can also run as a general-purpose Lua interpreter for scripts using its executable in place of lua.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

macOS

The README says current macOS packages are available through Homebrew.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

macOS availability

The README directs macOS users to install the package through Homebrew.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Operating systems

Linux,macOS,Windows via Windows Subsystem for LinuxRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Other workloads

It can create complex workloads that do not involve a database server.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Release status

The releases page lists version 1.0.20 as the latest release.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Release versioning

The README says sysbench aims to follow Semantic Versioning as much as possible.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Statistics

It reports rate and latency statistics, including latency percentiles and histograms.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Use and limits

The command-line options allow limits on run time or total events, and set worker thread count and average event rate.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows limit

Native Windows builds were dropped as of sysbench 1.0; the README recommends using Windows Subsystem for Linux.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows limitation

Native Windows builds are unsupported as of sysbench 1.0; the README recommends using Windows Subsystem for Linux.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Workload areas

database/OLTP,file I/O,CPU,memory,threads,mutexRead 24 Sep 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

Every sysbench plan and price →

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