Note

This was put together in 2017! That's a long time ago, things have definitely changed since :)

MongoDB / PostgreSQL JSONB Benchmarking Tool

MPJBT was wrote to gather data for our Percona Live EU 2017 talk - you can see our slides here.

We found some interesting things.

What's here?

• mpjbt - benchmark tool source code (see releases for pre-built binaries)
• scripts/run-tests.sh - bash script to run all workloads and push to a git remote
• scripts/run-suite.sh - bash script to run run-tests.sh with a variety of different parameters
• scripts/vfs.d - dtrace script to measure VFS call latency (./vfs.d <execname>, for example ./vfs.d mongod)

The bash scripts were developed to let us run long unattended tests over night - you'll probably have to tweak them for your use.

Features

• Pluggable drivers - supports PostgreSQL and MongoDB now, but should be easy to add others
• Randomised records
• Pads records out to test larger documents (1kb, 1mb, etc)
• Supports high numbers of concurrent workers
  • Care has been taken to avoid locks/contention outside of the drivers
• Two different random distributions supported
  • Uniform - good at cache busting
  • Zipfian - good at hitting the cache
• Support for configuring the behaviour of the underlying driver
  • Request different write concerns, set timeouts, etc
• Builds a histogram for request durations - don't just use the average throughput!
  • Breaks results down for each operation
  • Dump histogram data as a CSV

Workloads

• insert: insert records with a monotonically increasing ID
• insert-update: same as "insert' but immediately updates the record
• insert-select: same as insert, but immediately reads the record
• insert5-select95: insert a record 5% of the time, and read the most recent record the other 95%
• select-uniform: read a totally random record
• select-zipfian: read a random record heavily weighted towards the most recent
• select-update-uniform: same as select-uniform, but the record is immediately updated
• select-update-zipfian: same as select-zipfian, but the record is immediately updated
• update-zipfian: update a record, weighted towards the highest IDs
• update-uniform: update a random record
• read-range: perform a range query on the age field (age > 45 AND age < 75)

Notes

• We've seen a significant speed improvement using binary_parameters=yes when connecting to Postgres
• Take into account the drivers used (pq and GlobalSign's fork of mgo) will have differing performance
• This was built fairly quickly so we could grab data - be kind!
• Feel free to open PR's - I'll actively maintain this after the conference if it's useful to someone
• If you do open a PR, please maintain the lockless behaviour (outside of the drivers obviously)
• Multiple operation workloads are run sequentially per worker - this could be changed in the future (or just run two copies)
• I really hate releasing something without unit tests - I just ran out of time!
• Also I admit, we're not the best at coming up with names