Written up in a blog post https://addshore.com/2025/03/profiling-wikibase-apis-and-import-speed/

The general idea of this repo is to allow some basic profiling of different setups of Wikibase, using Docker, in a mildly automated way.

Steps:

• Startup docker-compose with wikibase and mysql
• Wait for it to be running
• Run install & update
• Start a timer
• Do some amount of known work
• Stop timer
• Output result...

You can also try running them locally...

Setup matrix.yml to your liking, and then run the following command:

./run_matrix.sh

You'll find some useful stuff output, but also in the .data directory, which will contain the results of the profiling.