Hi,

On 20 Dec 2010, at 22:32, Chenini, Mohamed wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I found this info on the net at 
> http://www.slideshare.net/danglbl/schemaless-databases
> [...]
> Does anyone knows if this was verified?

I think the author's comment on slide 35 sums it up pretty nicely:

"Of course this is just one (lame) test."

Coming up good numbers is hard which means that people with easy ways to make 
them come up with bad ones.

I've written about the difficulties on benchmarks databases on my blog:

  
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/175-Benchmarks-You-are-Doing-it-Wrong.html
  
http://jan.prima.de/~jan/plok/archives/176-Caveats-of-Evaluating-Databases.html

They should give you a few pointers on why this is hard.

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To the point: CouchDB generally performs best with concurrent load. In the case 
of loading data into CouchDB, bulk requests* will speed up things again. To 
push CouchDB to a write limit, you want to use concurrent bulk requests 
(specific numbers will depend on your data and hardware).

* http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_Bulk_Document_API

Unfortunately this means that these one-off benchmarks don't show any good 
numbers for CouchDB, yet fortunately this shows easily that these one-off 
benchmarks don't really reflect common real-world usage and should be 
discouraged.

Hope that helps, let us know if you have any more questions :)

Cheers
Jan
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