Sample datasets for benchmarking and testing – MySQL Performance Blog

1. The venerable sakila test database: small, fake database of movies.
2. The employees test database: small, fake database of employees.
3. The Wikipedia page-view statistics database: large, real website traffic data.
4. The IMDB database: moderately large, real database of movies.
5. The FlightStats database: flight on-time arrival data, easy to import into MySQL.
6. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics: airline on-time data, downloadable in customizable ways.
7. The airline on-time performance and causes of delays data from data.gov: ditto.
8. The statistical review of world energy from British Petroleum: real data about our energy usage.
9. The Amazon AWS Public Data Sets: a large variety of data such as the mapping of the Human Genome and the US Census data.
10. The Weather Underground weather data: customize and download as CSV files.

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