diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.pyc
 .vscode/
+.venv
diff --git a/schema-bench/bench.py b/schema-bench/bench.py
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+++ b/schema-bench/bench.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import fire
+import psycopg
+from psycopg import sql
+from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
+from itertools import repeat
+import multiprocessing
+import sys
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+
+
+def eprint(*args, **kwargs):
+    """eprint prints to stderr"""
+
+    print(*args, file=sys.stderr, **kwargs)
+
+
+def run(command, *args, check=True, shell=True, silent=False, **kwargs):
+    """run runs the given command and prints it to stderr"""
+
+    if not silent:
+        eprint(f"+ {command} ")
+    if silent:
+        kwargs.setdefault("stdout", subprocess.DEVNULL)
+    return subprocess.run(command, *args, check=check, shell=shell, **kwargs)
+
+
+def capture(command, *args, **kwargs):
+    """runs the given command and returns its output as a string"""
+    return run(command, *args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, **kwargs).stdout
+
+
+def create_schemas(args):
+    connection_string = args[0]
+    table_count = args[1]
+    citus = args[2]
+    foreign_key = args[3]
+    indexes = args[4]
+
+    with psycopg.connect(
+        connection_string, prepare_threshold=None, autocommit=True
+    ) as conn:
+        if citus:
+            conn.execute("SET citus.enable_schema_based_sharding TO ON")
+
+        for i in indexes:
+            schema_string = f"schema_bench_{i}"
+            schema = sql.Identifier(schema_string)
+            conn.execute(
+                sql.SQL("DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS {} CASCADE").format(
+                    schema,
+                )
+            )
+            fkey_table = sql.Identifier(schema_string, f"table_0")
+            conn.execute(sql.SQL("CREATE SCHEMA {}").format(schema))
+            for j in range(table_count):
+                table = sql.Identifier(schema_string, f"table_{j}")
+                conn.execute(
+                    sql.SQL(
+                        "CREATE TABLE {}(id bigserial PRIMARY KEY, data text, number bigint, num2 int, string varchar, cased_string citext)"
+                    ).format(table)
+                )
+                conn.execute(
+                    sql.SQL("CREATE INDEX ON {} (num2)").format(table)
+                )
+                if foreign_key:
+                    fkey = sql.Identifier(f"table_{j}_fkey")
+                    conn.execute(
+                        sql.SQL("ALTER TABLE {} ADD CONSTRAINT {} FOREIGN KEY (number) REFERENCES {}(id)").format(table, fkey, fkey_table)
+                    )
+
+
+def chunkify(l, n):
+    """Yield n number of striped chunks from l."""
+    return [l[i::n] for i in range(n)]
+
+
+class Bench:
+    def build(
+        self,
+        start=0,
+        scale=100,
+        table_count=10,
+        concurrency=multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
+        connection_string="",
+        foreign_key=False,
+        citus=True,
+    ):
+        with psycopg.connect(
+            connection_string, prepare_threshold=None, autocommit=True
+        ) as conn:
+            conn.execute('CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citext')
+
+        chunks = chunkify(list(range(start, start+scale)), concurrency)
+        with ProcessPoolExecutor(
+            max_workers=concurrency,
+        ) as executor:
+            for _ in executor.map(
+                create_schemas,
+                zip(repeat(connection_string), repeat(table_count), repeat(citus), repeat(foreign_key), chunks)
+            ):
+                pass
+
+    def run(
+        self,
+        scale=100,
+        table_count=10,
+        connection_string="",
+        client=multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
+        jobs=multiprocessing.cpu_count(),
+        time=5,
+        progress=5,
+    ):
+        with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile("w") as f:
+            f.write(
+                f"""
+                \\set schemaid random(0, {scale - 1})
+                \\set tableid random(0, {table_count - 1})
+                SELECT data, number FROM schema_bench_:schemaid.table_:tableid WHERE id = 1;
+                """,
+            )
+            f.flush()
+
+            run(
+                [
+                    "pgbench",
+                    "--file",
+                    f.name,
+                    "--client",
+                    str(client),
+                    "--jobs",
+                    str(jobs),
+                    "--time",
+                    str(time),
+                    "--progress",
+                    str(progress),
+                    "--no-vacuum",
+                    connection_string,
+                ],
+                shell=False,
+            )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    fire.Fire(Bench)
diff --git a/schema-bench/requirements.txt b/schema-bench/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f56290f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schema-bench/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+fire
+psycopg[c,pool]