Swingbench 2.8
I’m pleased to announce the release of Swingbench 2.8. It includes A new html front end to run and review benchmark runs New tool to render results with...
2025
results2text: Benchmark Comparisons
I’ve added a new tool (added in September 2025) to enable you to compare benchmark results that are generated and stored in the database (see here). The tool...
A new version of swingbench with a version of the TPC-C benchmark
There’s a new version of swingbench that includes the TPC-C benchmark and a tool to extract benchmark results from the database and export them as text or cs...
Benchmarks results stored to the database
I’ve just added some functionality to Swingbench that I probably should have added a long time ago. Now, every time you run a benchmark using Charbench, Swin...
2024
Swingbench Update including Oracle Database 23ai Drivers
I know it’s been a while since we’ve had a swingbench update. Thats mainly because of work commitments and “life”. Thats not to say there hasn’t been work go...
2023
New functionality for swingbench…
A small but significant set of changes Last weekend I updated swingbench to add a few features that I’ve had frequent requests for. One is the addition of da...
Swingbench 2.7 June 2023 Update
A new build of Swingbench with a whole bunch of small changes mainly related to the benchmarks. Faster build time for the JSON benchmark when creating lar...
Size Makes A Difference
In my previous post “Going Big” I discussed the difference testing a data set of a representative size can make to the usefulness of a benchmark. Running a w...
Going Big
Swingbench makes it simple to generate a dataset that you can simulate transactions against. However one of the problems I commonly see is that the users of ...
A New Release of Swingbench to celebrate Oracle Database 23c Free
To celebrate the new release of “Oracle Database Free 23c : Developer Release” I’m releasing a new build of swingbench. This build includes a new “Movie Stre...
2022
Swingbench 2.7
Swingbench 2.7 So I finally found some time to get a new build of swingbench done. The big change is that swingbench now only supports JDK-17 and above. Now,...
Oracle Hybrid Partitioned Tables using Object Storage on ADB
Hybrid Partitioned tables continues to be one of my favorite features of Oracle Database 19c and they’ve gotten better over time as we’ve introduced new feat...
A new build of DB Time Monitor
Following quickly on the heels of the update to MonitorDB I’m releasing a new build of DBTimeMonitor. This is a simple update using the latest Oracle jdbc dr...
A new build of MonitorDB
I’ve just updated MonitorDB. It’s never going to replace Grafana but if you need a quick solution to monitor a few values inside of the Oracle Database and y...
Should I Restore The Database After Each Benchmark Run?
This short blog isn’t about best practices when conducting benchmarks. I think there are plenty of formal papers on the subject available with just a quick G...
Making Colour work on the Command Line for Windows
I’ll make a confession. I don’t own a Microsoft Windows Machine. I never have and probably never will. This means that I generally never get the oppertunity ...
A New Release of Swingbench
A New Release of Swingbench… Along with a new website, I’m rolling out a new build of Swingbench. This release is a little embarrassing for me, as it include...
A New Look
A New Start… Quite a lot has changed since I last posted on this website. I had just left Oracle to join Google… A year and a half later I returned to Oracle...