<p>In order to test LevelDB's performance, we benchmark it against other well-established database implementations. We compare LevelDB (revision 39) against <ahref="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite3</a> (version 3.7.6.3) and <ahref="http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/spex.html">Kyoto Cabinet's</a> (version 1.2.67) TreeDB (a B+Tree based key-value store). We would like to acknowledge Scott Hess and Mikio Hirabayashi for their suggestions and contributions to the SQLite3 and Kyoto Cabinet benchmarks, respectively.</p>
<p>In order to test LevelDB's performance, we benchmark it against other well-established database implementations. We compare LevelDB (revision 39) against <ahref="https://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite3</a> (version 3.7.6.3) and <ahref="https://dbmx.net/kyotocabinet/spex.html">Kyoto Cabinet's</a> (version 1.2.67) TreeDB (a B+Tree based key-value store). We would like to acknowledge Scott Hess and Mikio Hirabayashi for their suggestions and contributions to the SQLite3 and Kyoto Cabinet benchmarks, respectively.</p>
<p>Benchmarks were all performed on a six-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz, with 12288 KB of total L3 cache and 12 GB of DDR3 RAM at 1333 MHz. (Note that LevelDB uses at most two CPUs since the benchmarks are single threaded: one to run the benchmark, and one for background compactions.) We ran the benchmarks on two machines (with identical processors), one with an Ext3 file system and one with an Ext4 file system. The machine with the Ext3 file system has a SATA Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 hard drive. The machine with the Ext4 file system has a SATA Samsung HD502HJ hard drive. Both hard drives spin at 7200 RPM and have hard drive write-caching enabled (using `hdparm -W 1 [device]`). The numbers reported below are the median of three measurements.</p>
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<h4>Custom Build Specifications</h4>
<ul>
<li>LevelDB: LevelDB was compiled with the <ahref="http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools">tcmalloc</a> library and the <ahref="http://code.google.com/p/snappy/">Snappy</a> compression library (revision 33). Assertions were disabled.</li>
<li>TreeDB: TreeDB was compiled using the <ahref="http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/">LZO</a> compression library (version 2.03). Furthermore, we enabled the TSMALL and TLINEAR options when opening the database in order to reduce the footprint of each record.</li>
<li>SQLite: We tuned SQLite's performance, by setting its locking mode to exclusive. We also enabled SQLite's <ahref="http://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html">write-ahead logging</a>.</li>
<li>LevelDB: LevelDB was compiled with the <ahref="https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools">tcmalloc</a> library and the <ahref="https://github.com/google/snappy">Snappy</a> compression library (revision 33). Assertions were disabled.</li>
<li>TreeDB: TreeDB was compiled using the <ahref="https://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/">LZO</a> compression library (version 2.03). Furthermore, we enabled the TSMALL and TLINEAR options when opening the database in order to reduce the footprint of each record.</li>
<li>SQLite: We tuned SQLite's performance, by setting its locking mode to exclusive. We also enabled SQLite's <ahref="https://www.sqlite.org/draft/wal.html">write-ahead logging</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>1. Baseline Performance</h2>
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of the working set to fit in memory.</p>
<h2>Note about Ext4 Filesystems</h2>
<p>The preceding numbers are for an ext3 file system. Synchronous writes are much slower under <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4">ext4</a> (LevelDB drops to ~31 writes / second and TreeDB drops to ~5 writes / second; SQLite3's synchronous writes do not noticeably drop) due to ext4's different handling of <spanclass="code">fsync</span> / <spanclass="code">msync</span> calls. Even LevelDB's asynchronous write performance drops somewhat since it spreads its storage across multiple files and issues <spanclass="code">fsync</span> calls when switching to a new file.</p>
<p>The preceding numbers are for an ext3 file system. Synchronous writes are much slower under <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4">ext4</a> (LevelDB drops to ~31 writes / second and TreeDB drops to ~5 writes / second; SQLite3's synchronous writes do not noticeably drop) due to ext4's different handling of <spanclass="code">fsync</span> / <spanclass="code">msync</span> calls. Even LevelDB's asynchronous write performance drops somewhat since it spreads its storage across multiple files and issues <spanclass="code">fsync</span> calls when switching to a new file.</p>
<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat wrote LevelDB. Kevin Tseng wrote and compiled these benchmarks. Mikio Hirabayashi, Scott Hess, and Gabor Cselle provided help and advice.</p>
Dimitris Apostolou
3 years ago