Re: Any tool/script available which can be used to measure scalability of an application's database.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Sreejith Balakrishnan
<sreejith(dot)balakrishnan(at)tcs(dot)com> wrote:
> Dear @,
>
> Is there any tool or some sort of script available, for PostgreSQL, which
> can be used to measure scalability of an application's database. Or is there
> any guideline on how to do this.

"scalability of an application's database" can be understood either
like a relation of transactions per second to database size or like an
ability of database to be sharded/partitioned or may be like something
else.

Could you please explain more specifically the original task?
What is the goal of it?

> I am a bit confused about the concept of measuring scalability of an
> application's database.
>
> How is the scalability measured?
>
> Is it like loading the DB with a bulk data volume and then do performance
> testing by using tools like JMeter?
>
> Could any one kindly help me on this..
>
> Thanks,
> Sreejith.
>
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