There’s a PgFoundry project that contains several example PostgreSQL databases. Most of these haven’t been updated for a while, but will still work with recent PostgreSQL versions. If you need a bigger database, the MusicBrainz music metadata database has full database dumps available for download.
The baseball archive can be downloaded in CSV format. The batting statistics file contains a little over 90,000 rows of data which should be helpful in performance testing your app.
The baseball archive can be downloaded in CSV format. The batting statistics file contains a little over 90,000 rows of data which should be helpful in performance testing your app.
You could try the classic MySQL world database. The world.sql file is available for download here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-other.html Just scroll down to Example Databases and you will find it.
Since I originally wrote this answer, I have updated it with the many ways that are now available for accessing sample data sets in Python. Personally, I tend to stick with whatever package I am already using (usually seaborn or pandas). If you need offline access, installing the data set with Quilt seems to be … Read more