VALKEY-BENCHMARK(1)

💖 VALKEY-BENCHMARK(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for valkey-benchmark — it lives in section 1, the General Commands Manual section, aka the place where all the "yes queen, type this in your shell" commands hang out 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

valkey-benchmark — benchmark a Valkey instance. that's the whole job description, she's simple and she's iconic 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

valkey-benchmark [-h <host>] [-p <port>] [-c <clients>] [-n <requests]>]
[-k <boolean>]

look at those brackets. so many brackets. it's giving "options for days" 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Valkey is a key-value database. it's similar to memcached, except — and this is the main character detail — the dataset is not volatile, and other datatypes (such as lists and sets) are natively supported. no cap, she's got range 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

every single one, bestie. we are not skipping a single flag, that would be a crime fr fr

• -h hostname — the server hostname (default 127.0.0.1)
• -p port — the server port (default 6379)
• -s socket — the server socket, which overrides host and port (she said "I don't care about your -h or -p, I'm built different")
• -a password — password for Valkey Auth
• -c clients — number of parallel connections (default 50)
• -n requests — total number of requests (default 100000)
• -d size — data size of the SET/GET value in bytes (default 2)
• -dbnum db — SELECT the specified db number (default 0)
• -k boolean — 1=keep alive, 0=reconnect (default 1)
• -r keyspacelen — use random keys for SET/GET/INCR, and random values for SADD. with this option the benchmark will get/set keys in the form mykey_rand000000012456 instead of constant keys, and the keyspacelen argument determines the max number of values for the random number. for instance, if it's set to 10, only the rand000000000000 - rand000000000009 range will be allowed. ✨ chaos mode, but make it deterministic ✨
• -P numreq — pipeline numreq requests. default 1 (no pipeline).
• -q — quiet mode. just show query/sec values 🤫
• --csv — output in CSV format 📊
• -l — loop mode. run the tests forever ♾️
• -I — idle mode. just open N idle connections and wait.
• -D — debug mode. more verbose. 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

valkey-benchmark was written by Salvatore Sanfilippo. 🫶

this manual page was written by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💅✨

cute little sign-off: this page is dated June 28, 2010, and it comes to you straight from VALKEY-BENCHMARK(1) in section 1 of the manual. periodt. 🎀