ClickBench Playground
Data
database benchmarking playground
SHOW HN2026
22points
6comments
#1,910of 4,366 in 2026
Top 44%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Impressive and useful tool for exploring many databases
From 3 comments
Incredible! This is amazing! README says it downloads onto a host the dataset, (builds if needed then) runs a snapshotted firecracker microvms that exposes a small /query…
jauntywundrkind on HNIncredible tool! Really liked playing around with it.
valentynkit on HNThat's actually neat, I can finally do a full sweep of something I found after the recent post about Lobsters migration, I came across a query that evaluates differently in…
eterm on HN
Questions
Is the playground emulated or running on real hardware
From 1 comment
Really cool idea. Skimmed the writeup, but none of this is emulated???
cvince on HN