> We've experimented with the performance of Firebird in virtual machines in > Microsoft's Azure cloud. With Azure VMs, any durable data needs to be > placed in "data disks", and essentially that means network-connected > storage that is inherently slower than e.g. local SSD disks. > > When testing our application's operations with a Firebird database that's on > such a "data disk", the performance is roughly 6x slower than when the > database is on the VM's local, temporary-only disk. The temporary disks > obviously are not good for real use so this is for performance comparison > only.
Which class of Azure SSD/Premium storage have you tried? P10 (500 IOPs)? P20 (2300 IOPs)? Or, P30 (5000 IOPs)? Sean
