Benchmark a database under skew, concurrency and cache-state changes

Compare uniform and Zipfian keys, cold and warm caches and several client counts with repetitions, percentiles and a correctness check, then write a reproducible report.

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The exercise happens on YCSB or pgbench + local database. Canonical link: https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki/Core-Workloads. Link check: link responded (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

Supports: Benchmark design for performance engineering and research evaluation.

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