Ethminer vs. PowerShell vs. SQL vs. XMRig Comparison Chart

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation and configuration management framework, consisting of a command-line shell and scripting language. Unlike most shells, which accept and return text, PowerShell is built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), and accepts and returns .NET objects. This fundamental change brings entirely new tools and methods for automation. Unlike traditional command-line interfaces, PowerShell cmdlets are designed to deal with objects. An object is structured information that is more than just the string of characters appearing on the screen. Command output always carries extra information that you can use if you need it. If you've used text-processing tools to process data in the past, you'll find that they behave differently when used in PowerShell. In most cases, you don't need text-processing tools to extract specific information. You directly access portions of the data using standard PowerShell object syntax.

High performance, open source, cross platform RandomX, KawPow, CryptoNight and AstroBWT CPU/GPU miner, RandomX benchmark and stratum proxy. The preferred way to configure XMRig is the JSON config file as it is more flexible and human friendly. The command line interface does not cover all features, such as mining profiles for different algorithms. Important options can be changed during runtime without miner restart by editing the config file or executing API calls. Wizard helps you create initial configuration for the miner. Workers helps manage your miners via HTTP API. Default donation 1% (1 minute in 100 minutes) can be increased via option donate-level or disabled in source code. XMRig source code available on GitHub under terms of GPLv3 license. Binary downloads and build instructions available for most popular platforms. We use a self hosted buildbot to create binaries for every commit.