Unfair Database Benchmark

So today we will benchmark some popular database, PostgreSQL, MySQL (Percona), Aerospike, Couchbase, MongoDB, Redis under 64-bit Linux (i7-4700MQ, 16GB RAM, non SSD harddisk) and Go using certain library. The settings for each database should have maximum 4GB in working memory, each insert should be done in transaction (if possible), index must be created (if possible), searching 40 times of insertion number in random.

Disclaimer: this is not apple to apple comparison, you can look for the source (and sent a pull request) on my github or dropbox. Let's get started!

PostgreSQL (9.5.1)

using JSONB data type

sudo pacman -S postgresql

sudo su - postgres <<EOF
initdb --locale en_CA.UTF-8 -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'
EOF

echo "
max_connections = 64                 
superuser_reserved_connections = 3   
shared_buffers = 2GB                 
work_mem = 32MB                      
dynamic_shared_memory_type = posix  
effective_cache_size = 4GB
logging_collector = off         
datestyle = 'iso, dmy'
timezone = 'Asia/Jakarta'
lc_messages = 'en_CA.UTF-8'                    
lc_monetary = 'en_CA.UTF-8'                    
lc_numeric = 'en_CA.UTF-8'                     
lc_time = 'en_CA.UTF-8'                        
default_text_search_config = 'pg_catalog.english'
" > /var/lib/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf

sudo systemctl start postgresql

sudo su - postgres <<EOF
createdb test2
EOF

go get -u -v gitlab.com/kokizzu/gokil

The result:

initial database size: 7192 kB
INSERT micro 100 983.62 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 13223.53 ms
INSERT small 10000 119006.15 ms
final database size: 10 MB
SEARCH micro 100 354.34 ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 3499.50 ms
SEARCH small 10000 35499.98 ms

MySQL (Percona 5.7.10)

using InnoDB, current JSON data type doesn't support indexing

sudo pacman -S percona-server percona-server-clients 

echo '[client]
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
[mysqld]
port            = 3306
socket          = /run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
datadir         = /var/lib/mysql
symbolic-links=0
sql_mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION,STRICT_TRANS_TABLES
key_buffer_size = 800M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
table_open_cache = 64
sort_buffer_size = 32M
net_buffer_length = 4M
read_buffer_size = 16M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 16M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 4G
[mysqld_safe]
log-error       = /var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file        = /run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

' > /etc/mysql/my.cnf

sudo systemctl start mysqld

echo 'CREATE DATABASE test2' | mysql -u root

The result:

initial database size: 0
INSERT micro 100 3258.85 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 32297.04 ms
INSERT small 10000 341951.99 ms
final database size: 2.02 MB
SEARCH micro 100 282.32 ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 2843.62 ms
SEARCH small 10000 28404.53 ms

MongoDB (3.2.3)

using struct and map[string]interface{} inside the struct

sudo pacman -S mongodb

go get -u -v gopkg.in/mgo.v2

The result:

initial database size: 78 MB
INSERT micro 100 10.19 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 83.58 ms
INSERT small 10000 894.40 ms
final database size: 78 MB
SEARCH micro 100 321.75 ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 3183.75 ms
SEARCH small 10000 33069.50 ms

CouchBase (4.0.0)

invalid implementation, always got panic: {MCResponse status=0x20 keylen=0, extralen=0, bodylen=12}

sudo yaourt -S couchbase-server-community

go get -u -v github.com/couchbase/go-couchbase

sudo systemctl restart couchbase-server

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8091 to configure, I use 3000MB data cache and 1000MB index cache.

The result (incorrect):

initial database size: 4.06 MB
INSERT micro 100 132.29 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 1317.61 ms
INSERT small 10000 13082.86 ms
final database size: -
SEARCH micro 100 - ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 69020.08 ms
SEARCH small 10000 - ms

AeroSpike (3.7.4)

without secondary index, since I could not found source or binary package for their command line tool for creating the index)

sudo yourt -S aerospike-server-ce
# change this two line on PKGBUILD:
# source=("http://aerospike.com/download/server/latest/artifact/tgz")
# sha512sums=('e9a574e5020db9542de51ad0a1d8da28b8f89d10505848c406656cf113654c0135dfd63fe0aaaafb06f50938124a00275f1b2a0a5ead7058b7b53964c046f3a1')

go get -u -v github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go

cd /

sudo aerospike init 

echo '

namespace test2 {

  replication-factor 2

  memory-size 4G

  default-ttl 0 # 30 days, use 0 to never expire/evict.

  storage-engine device {

    file /opt/aerospike/data

    filesize 1G

  }

}' >> /etc/aerospike.conf

sudo mkdir /opt/aerospike

sudo aerospike start

The result:

initial database size: 1 GB
INSERT micro 100 4.63 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 40.75 ms
INSERT small 10000 426.20 ms
final database size: 1 GB
SEARCH micro 100 113.93 ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 1086.70 ms
SEARCH small 10000 11259.24 ms

Redis (3.0.7)

using gob for serialization and deserialization.

sudo yourt -S redis

go get -u -v github.com/garyburd/redigo/redis

sudo systemctl start redis

The result:

initial database size: 18 bytes
INSERT micro 100 3.94 ms
INSERT tiny 1000 38.28 ms
INSERT small 10000 377.24 ms
final database size: 3.9 MB
SEARCH micro 100 424.79 ms
SEARCH tiny 1000 4263.79 ms
SEARCH small 10000 42904.11 ms

Here's the recap: