I first thought RQG may not play well with Drizzle due to reduced number of types but I’ve talked to other Drizzle hackers and it seems we’ve ported RQG to work with Drizzle. This is exciting.

Would you be able to give me the URL to where you’re planning to write about this? Something I’m interested is writing an import feature to skyload that accepts an RQG output. I already wrote an import feature (though it’s still premature) so it shouldn’t be too tough to pull off.

I’m not 100% certain how well it will play with BlitzDB at the moment, but the randgen team is very interested in having lots of people use the tool and will be open to making things work well for everyone.

I mainly like the RQG as it can generate a lot of pretty mean queries fairly quickly. You can expect me to start writing more about using this tool in a few weeks, so we might be able to collaborate on this then. I’m interested in trying to beat up BlitzDB with it at any rate ; )

Am I correct to say that this is the tool that you recommend?

– https://launchpad.net/randgen

Currently I plan on testing BlitzDB with sysbench, tpce-mysql, drizzleslap (mysqlslap) and skyload which is a small non-blocking parallel benchmark program I wrote a while back.

Are you also testing BlitzDB with the random query generator? If not, I highly recommend it – it has proven to be an invaluable tool in testing MySQL