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Balanced Benchmark Utility

This utility is designed to make it very easy to construct an environment that can simulate and reproduce a representative database workload, which can be used for load testing and benchmarking. Unlike freeware benchmarking tools, the Balanced Benchmark Utility (BB) can simulate a mixture of record reading and transaction processing -- easily tunable by the BB operator.

The BB can use the application's 'native' code, canned code supplied with the BB, or code that is automatically generated by monitoring the I/O activity of a live production database.

The BB can use the native application's databases, BB test databases, or any combination of these.

The workload code can be run on the same server as the database, on one or more remote databases, or on a combination of the two.

Ways to Use the Balanced Benchmark Utility:

Test performance of new or upgraded hardware compared to existing hardware
Test performace on different platforms, such as Solaris vs. Linux for example
Add additional load to server to test remaining life expectancy
Compare performance of disparate databases (as in Progress vs. non-Progress)
Monitor I/O activity of an existing Progress application and then generate programs that replicate similar I/O activity for testing purposes
Incrementally increase a server load to identify at what point the user's response rate becomes marginal or unacceptable

Progress v8 - v10 are supported and source code is available for your own modifications.