# Install memtier_benchmark with Homebrew, Nix

Redis and Memcache traffic generation and benchmarking tool. Version 2.5.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-16. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#memtier-benchmark.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:memtier_benchmark
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install memtier_benchmark
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#memtier-benchmark
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/memtier-benchmark/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:memtier_benchmark
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.5.1
- **Source summary:** Redis and Memcache traffic generation and benchmarking tool
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/redis/memtier_benchmark>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/redis/memtier_benchmark>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-16T12:17:17Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- memtier_benchmark (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.5.1
## Project history and usage

memtier_benchmark began as a Redis Labs/Garantia Data benchmarking tool for generating heavy Redis and Memcached traffic. Yiftach Shoolman announced it to the Redis DB mailing list in July 2013 as a complementary tool to redis-benchmark, noting that redis-benchmark covered only simple GET and SET workloads. Redis's own launch article described the motivation as regression testing and database-performance optimization, with the source released under GPLv2.

### Project history

The tool's niche is realistic key-value-store load generation from a single command-line executable. It supports both Redis and Memcached protocols, multithreaded and multi-client execution, configurable read/write ratios, sequential or random key patterns, expiry ranges, Redis Cluster, and TLS. In practice, engineers use it for capacity tests, latency and throughput comparisons, performance regression checks, and synthetic workload generation before changing cache/database deployments.

### How it is used

Its packaging footprint reflects that role: it is distributed as Redis-provided APT/YUM packages, a Homebrew formula, and a Nix package. The Phoronix Test Suite added a memtier_benchmark profile in 2019, making it part of reusable public benchmark workflows as well as Redis-oriented operations work.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/redis/memtier_benchmark>
- <https://groups.google.com/g/redis-db/c/aPFyn8jLFTs>
- <https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/memtier-benchmark-1.5.0>
- <https://redis.io/blog/memtier_benchmark-a-high-throughput-benchmarking-tool-for-redis-memcached/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - memtier-benchmark: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/me/memtier-benchmark/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/memtier_benchmark.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/memtier_benchmark.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph