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title: "Early tests show MariaDB 5.3.0 having a performance speed-up against DBT-3 query set"
publish_date: 2011-08-09
author: "MariaDB"
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# Early tests show MariaDB 5.3.0 having a performance speed-up against DBT-3 query set

Posted recently on the [maria-developers mailing list](https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers "maria-developers mailing list"), by Igor Babaev, Principal MariaDB developer at Monty Program is some [interesting preliminary results](https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg04278.html "interesting preliminary results") for MariaDB 5.3.0 benchmarked against the DBT-3 benchmarking program.

DBT-3 is a benchmark to test a decision support workload, with a suite of business-oriented queries and concurrent data modifications.

[Read Igor’s discoveries](https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg04278.html "Read Igor's discoveries"), which he ran on a laptop with 4 cores (multi-threaded = 8 cores in total), 8GB RAM and SSD on SuSE, and as Igor says, enjoy his numbers. It is a repeatable benchmark with all settings included. We’d like to see discussion continued on the mailing list!

**Resources**

- [DBT-3 git repository](http://osdldbt.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=osdldbt/dbt3;a=summary "DBT-3 git repository")