Today, I would like to introduce “skyload“, a small project that I’ve been working on for the last couple of weeks. In brief, skyload is a libdrizzle based load emulation tool that is capable of running concurrent load tests against database instances that can speak Drizzle (and/or) the MySQL protocol.
Something I’d like to emphasize here is that, skyload is not a replacement for mysqlslap or drizzleslap since it only provides a subset of what they can do. As I’ve stated on the project description, skyload is designed to do a good …
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