Laurence Rowe wrote: > Shane's earlier benchmarks show MySQL to be the fastest RelStorage backend: > http://shane.willowrise.com/archives/relstorage-10-and-measurements/
Yep, despite my efforts to put PostgreSQL on top. :-) It seems that PostgreSQL has more predictable performance and behavior, while MySQL wins slightly in raw performance once every surprisingly slow query has been optimized. Thanks to Jim for sending me preliminary results a week ago so I could have time to think about it and respond properly. :-) Still, I think it's fair to point out an issue I discovered in Jim's tests. When Jim expanded my read test to include hot and steamin' times, he did not do anything to synchronize the execution of the two new test phases. I can understand that, since the existing structure of speedtest.py makes it hard to add synchronization. However, I discovered that the lack of synchronization inflated the "hot" scores by a large factor (I've seen up to 4X) under high concurrency, since the CPU ends up executing the supposedly concurrent tests at different times. Therefore, the ZEO cache isn't quite as good as Jim's numbers suggest. Even after optimizing the RelStorage/memcached integration, however, my own tests show the maximum performance of the ZEO cache is 2 or 3 times as fast as the RelStorage/memcached code. For grins, I closed that gap using a ZODB configuration with a fake memcached that stores object states in a Python dictionary. This leads to an interesting question. Memcached or ZEO cache--which is better? While memcached has a higher minimum performance penalty, it also has a lower maximum penalty, since memcached hits never have to wait for disk. Also, memcached can be shared among processes, there is a large development community around memcached, and memcached creates opportunities for developers to be creative with caching strategies. So I'm inclined to stick with memcached even though the ZEO cache numbers look better. Shane _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
