Apica LoadTest vs HammerDB

Apica LoadTest creates, runs, and analyzes capacity and performance tests for web and cloud applications. Its workflow covers scripting, setup, building, execution, analysis, and reporting. Users can create or upload HTTP/S load-test scripts, select geographic test clusters, and work through a browser portal without local software downloads. The portal provides managed infrastructure, test execution and scheduling, reporting and analysis, and collaboration storage. Apica says its premium load test network supports tests of up to 2,000,000 concurrent users. Documentation also describes device testing for iPhone, Android, iPad, and Windows, including native mobile applications. Example integrations include AWS Code Pipeline, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. LoadTest integrates with ZebraTester for exchanging scripts and results; ZebraTester can also run standalone on customer infrastructure. Apica offers full-service projects in which its experts design, script, and execute tests and work with customers on performance analysis and improvement. A blog page invites users to start a 30-day full-featured trial. The Self Service Portal is subscription-based by the month, but no price is listed.

HammerDB is a free database benchmarking application for running workloads across SQL Server, Db2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL and VillageSQL. It offers graphical, command-line, web and automation interfaces, with Windows and Linux builds, a Docker image and on-premise deployment. Version 6.0 adds CI and pipeline capabilities for MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, covering schema sizing, workload execution and result capture. It reports I/O measures such as IOPS and MB/s and provides Active Session History viewers for MySQL and MariaDB. Timing profiles use reservoir sampling and extended percentile reporting to compare response-time distributions. Users can upload benchmark artifacts containing workload results, database versions, metrics and system metadata. The web service can run as an SCGI application behind a web server or automation gateway. HammerDB is released under the GNU General Public License Version 3. Automated workflows may require compilers, database dependencies, libraries and operating-system tools.