Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark
From the webpage:
With the many new serving databases available including Sherpa, BigTable, Azure and many more, it can be difficult to decide which system is right for your application, partially because the features differ between systems, and partially because there is not an easy way to compare the performance of one system versus another.
The goal of the Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) project is to develop a framework and common set of workloads for evaluating the performance of different “key-value” and “cloud” serving stores.
The project comprises two areas:
- The YCSB Client, an extensible workload generator
- The Core workloads, a set of workload scenarios to be executed by the generator
Although the core workloads provide a well-rounded picture of a system’s performance, the Client is extensible so that you can define new and different workloads to examine system aspects, or application scenarios, not adequately covered by the core workload. Similarly, the Client is extensible to support benchmarking different databases. Although we include sample code for benchmarking HBase and Cassandra, it is straightforward to write a new interface layer to benchmark your favorite database.
A common use of the tool is to benchmark multiple systems and compare them. For example, you can install multiple systems on the same hardware configuration, and run the same workloads against each system. Then you can plot the performance of each system (for example, as latency versus throughput curves) to see when one system does better than another.
The Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) doesn’t get discussed in the video and only briefly in the paper: How to Compare NoSQL Databases.
YCSB source code and Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB may be helpful.
Performance of databases depend upon your point of view, benchmarks and their application and no doubt other causes as well.
Would make an interesting topic map project to make create a comparison of the metrics from different benchmarks and to attempt to create a crosswalk between them.
That would require a very deep and explicit definition of commonalities and differences between the benchmarks and their application to various database architectures.