PostgreSQL pgbench

This is a simple benchmark of PostgreSQL using pgbench.

To run this test with the Phoronix Test Suite, the basic command is: phoronix-test-suite benchmark pgbench.

Project Site

postgresql.org

Test Created

6 December 2010

Last Updated

26 September 2024

Test Maintainer

Michael Larabel

Test Type

System

Average Install Time

1 Minute, 25 Seconds

Average Run Time

5 Minutes, 37 Seconds

Test Dependencies

C/C++ Compiler Toolchain + BC

Accolades

400k+ Downloads + 10k+ Public Benchmark Results + Recently Updated Test Profile

Supported Platforms

* Uploading of benchmark result data to OpenBenchmarking.org is always optional (opt-in) via the Phoronix Test Suite for users wishing to share their results publicly.
** Data based on those opting to upload their test results to OpenBenchmarking.org and users enabling the opt-in anonymous statistics reporting while running benchmarks from an Internet-connected platform.
*** Test profile page view reporting began March 2021.
Data updated weekly as of 4 October 2024.

Revision History

pts/pgbench-1.15.0 [View Source] Thu, 26 Sep 2024 15:44:13 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 17 upsteam. Also check for libicu dependency. Closes: https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/pull/813

pts/pgbench-1.14.0 [View Source] Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:25:36 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 16 upstream.

pts/pgbench-1.13.0 [View Source] Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:30:08 GMT
Make use of PostgreSQL prepared mode for pgbench, add higher client options.

pts/pgbench-1.12.0 [View Source] Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:20:45 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 15 upstream.

pts/pgbench-1.11.1 [View Source] Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:32:09 GMT
Allow a scaling factor up to 25,000.

pts/pgbench-1.11.0 [View Source] Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:06:31 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 14.0 upstream, various tuning improvements too.

pts/pgbench-1.10.2 [View Source] Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:40:45 GMT
Increase time -T option to 90, oversight that it wasn't bumped higher in more recent years.

pts/pgbench-1.10.1 [View Source] Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:41:34 GMT
Settings tweak for the 1.10.0 changes.

pts/pgbench-1.10.0 [View Source] Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:11:09 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 13.0 upstream, restructure test option handling.

pts/pgbench-1.9.1 [View Source] Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:53:32 GMT
Fix heavy contentiob by going off physical CPU cores.

pts/pgbench-1.9.0 [View Source] Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:57:40 GMT
Update against PostgreSQL 12.0. NOTE: still waiting on official Windows postgresql 12 release binaries.

pts/pgbench-1.8.7 [View Source] Fri, 29 Mar 2019 03:20:12 GMT
Update download URLs.

pts/pgbench-1.8.6 [View Source] Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:47:49 GMT
Enable BSD build support.

pts/pgbench-1.8.5 [View Source] Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:43:34 GMT
Add bc as an external dependency.

pts/pgbench-1.8.4 [View Source] Sun, 25 Mar 2018 13:10:40 GMT
Fix the bundled patch allowing PostgreSQL to run as root.

pts/pgbench-1.8.3 [View Source] Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:07:18 GMT
Adjust run count as was bumped lower during debugging.

pts/pgbench-1.8.2 [View Source] Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:06:30 GMT
Create db directory on Windows otherwise the test seems to sometimes fail, also add note about MSVCR120.dll needing to be on system for PostgreSQL to work.

pts/pgbench-1.8.1 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:46:17 GMT
Tidy up the Windows support, appears to be good to go.

pts/pgbench-1.8.0 [View Source] Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:26:11 GMT
Update against upstream PostgreSQL 10.3, add initial Windows bits.

pts/pgbench-1.7.0 [View Source] Sat, 14 Oct 2017 15:23:03 GMT
Updating against postgresql 10.0

pts/pgbench-1.6.0 [View Source] Fri, 19 May 2017 11:57:32 GMT
Update against upstream PostgreSQL 9.6.3.

pts/pgbench-1.5.2 [View Source] Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:05:08 GMT
Update download links, advertise BSD compatibility.

pts/pgbench-1.5.1 [View Source] Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:16:09 GMT
Hack up pgbench to let it run as root

pts/pgbench-1.5.0 [View Source] Tue, 09 Jun 2015 20:05:58 GMT
Major update/overhaul of pgbench PostgreSQL benchmark.

pts/pgbench-1.4.0 [View Source] Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:15:04 GMT
Move back to older PostgreSQL 8.4.11 upstream server version to work around PostgreSQL 9.x issue right now dealing with the plpg

pts/pgbench-1.3.0 [View Source] Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:23:30 GMT
Update PostgreSQL to version 9.0.4.

pts/pgbench-1.2.0 [View Source] Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:16:36 GMT
Initial import into OpenBenchmarking.org

Suites Using This Test

Database Test Suite

C/C++ Compiler Tests

Server

Common Kernel Benchmarks

Multi-Core

CPU Massive

Performance Metrics

Analyze Test Configuration:

PostgreSQL 17

Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 1000 - Mode: Read Only - Average Latency

OpenBenchmarking.org metrics for this test profile configuration based on 26 public results since 26 September 2024 with the latest data as of 3 October 2024.

Below is an overview of the generalized performance for components where there is sufficient statistically significant data based upon user-uploaded results. It is important to keep in mind particularly in the Linux/open-source space there can be vastly different OS configurations, with this overview intended to offer just general guidance as to the performance expectations.

Component

Percentile Rank

# Compatible Public Results

ms (Average)

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X 64-Cores

93rd

0.268 ^{+/- 0.001}

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64-Core

81st

0.576 ^{+/- 0.004}

Mid-Tier

75th

> 0.579

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core

66th

0.656 ^{+/- 0.008}

Intel Xeon 6980P

51st

1.059 ^{+/- 0.129}

Median

50th

1.171

Intel Core i9-14900K

35th

1.189 ^{+/- 0.005}

Low-Tier

25th

> 1.582

AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

8th

2.590 ^{+/- 0.120}

Based on OpenBenchmarking.org data, the selected test / test configuration (PostgreSQL 17 - Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 1000 - Mode: Read Only - Average Latency) has an average run-time of 7 minutes. By default this test profile is set to run at least 3 times but may increase if the standard deviation exceeds pre-defined defaults or other calculations deem additional runs necessary for greater statistical accuracy of the result.

Notable Instruction Set Usage

Notable instruction set extensions supported by this test, based on an automatic analysis by the Phoronix Test Suite / OpenBenchmarking.org analytics engine.

Instruction Set

Support

Instructions Detected

Last automated analysis: 18 September 2023

This test profile binary relies on the shared libraries libc.so.6.

Tested CPU Architectures

This benchmark has been successfully tested on the below mentioned architectures. The CPU architectures listed is where successful OpenBenchmarking.org result uploads occurred, namely for helping to determine if a given test is compatible with various alternative CPU architectures.

CPU Architecture

Kernel Identifier

Verified On

Intel / AMD x86 64-bit

x86_64

(Many Processors)

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