Alternatives to sysbench
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. sysbench itself: install sysbench.
prometheus
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database
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MySQL Server, the world's most popular open source database, and MySQL Cluster, a real-time, open source transactional database
sqlancer
Automated testing to find logic and performance bugs in database systems
postgrest
REST API for any Postgres database
turso
A SQL database in Rust: SQLite-compatible, now also speaking Postgres (experimental). The LLVM of databases
golang-migrate
Database migrations. CLI and Golang library
dbmate
🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool
sqlboiler
Generate a Go ORM tailored to your database schema
tbls
tbls is a CI-Friendly tool to document a database, written in Go
kuzu
Embedded property graph database built for speed. Vector search and full-text search built in. Implements Cypher
compiledb
Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems
SuperDB
An analytics database that puts JSON and relational tables on equal footing
pgcopydb
Copy a Postgres database to a target Postgres server (pg_dump | pg_restore on steroids)
db-vcs
Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line
Redis
For developers, who are building real-time data-driven applications, Redis is the preferred, fastest, and most feature-rich cache, data structure serv
octosql
OctoSQL is a query tool that allows you to join, analyse and transform data from multiple databases and file formats using SQL
wal-g
Archival and Restoration for databases in the Cloud
fastfetch
A maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool
tsung
Tsung is a high-performance benchmark framework for various protocols including HTTP, XMPP, LDAP, etc
macchina
A system information frontend with an emphasis on performance
fabric-ai
Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set
Stats
macOS system monitor in your menu bar
envoy
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
ncnn
ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than sysbench — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
sysbench is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.