Installation

Software Requirements

dbworkload requires at least Python 3.8 and the pip utility, installed and upgraded.

dbworkload dependencies are installed automatically by the pip tool.

It has run successfully on Ubuntu 20.04+, MacOSX on both Intel and Apple silicon.

dbworkload installation

dbworkload comes already pre-packaged, available from PyPI.

Generally, you want to specify which of the supported drivers you want to install.

In below example, we install with the Psycopg3 driver, so we run

# you must use pipx on latest Ubuntu
apt update
apt install -y python3-pip pipx

pip3 install --upgrade pip

pipx install dbworkload[postgres]
pipx ensurepath

Confirm installation is successful by running

dbworkload --version