Database testing is one of the areas that might have the smaller number of open source tools. The programming languages have many xUnit tools and mocking frameworks, but this is not the case for databases. This article provides a list of open source tools that can be used to perform unit, load and security testing on several relational (MySQL, Oracle, SQLServer, etc.) and NoSQL databases. This situation might be the results of the fact that most of the main relational databases are commercial tools that come with an infrastructure already provided by the vendors. The current rise of the NoSQL databases and the many forks that have been created from the original MySQL open source relational database might however change this situation in the future. The tools covered in this article are Database Benchmark, Database Rider, DBChaos, DBKover, dbstress, DbUnit, DB Test Driven, GODBT, HammerDB, JdbcSlim, JdbcRunner, JDBDT (Java DataBase Delta Testing), Mindleaf, MyTAP, NBi, NoSQLMap, NoSQLUnit, pgTAP, pstress, ruby-plsql-spec, SeLite, simple-db-tester, Spring DBUnit, SQLancer, sqlmap, tSQLt, Tsung, TypeORM Seeding, utPLSQL. Updates September 26 2024; added DBChaos, SQLancer, TypeORM Seeding February 14 2023: added DBKover, GODBT, pstress, simple-db-tester May 5 2020: added JdbcRunner, Mindleaf, MyTAP, pgTAP, Spring DBUnit January 23 2017: added JDBDT (Java DataBase Delta Testing), Database Rider, dbstress, NBi July 18 2016: added JdbcSlim, ruby-plsql-spec, Tsung, utPLSQL December 1 2016: added SeLite Database Benchmark Database Benchmark is an open source .NET tool designed to stress test databases with large data flows. The application performs two main test scenarios: … Continue reading Open Source Database Testing Tools