Introduction
Evaluating the performance of database systems is a very demanding task. There are a lot of hard choices to be made, e.g.:
- What operating system and operating system version is to be used
- What configuration setup is to be used
- What benchmarks are to be used and how long are the warm-up and measure times
- What test setups are to be used
- What version of the database management system is used
- What storage engine is used
While performance evaluation is mostly machine time, there is still a lot of hard work for the human monitoring the tests. In this blog post we have made following choices:
- We’re using an Intel Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9GHz CPU containing 32-cores and Linux 3.4.12 with 132G main memory. The database is stored on a Fusion-IO ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB Firmware v7.2.5, rev 110646, using Driver 3.3.4 build 5833069. The …