Excel Parsing Benchmarks

Benchmarking the speed of reading xlsx files with various Ruby libraries.

Usage

1. Place an excel file with data in the first sheet in the root directory and name it sheet.xlsx
2. bundle
3. ./benchmark.sh.

Results

Run on a 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2.6GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2400MHz memory and MacOS Catalina 10.15.3.

Spreadsheet can be found here, provided by the Dutch "Stichtse Vecht".

Versions:

• ruby 2.7.0
• rubyXL 3.4.12
• simple_xslx_reader 1.0.4
• creek 2.5.0
• roo 2.8.3
• xsv 0.3.7

# rubyxl: Speed

Warming up --------------------------------------
              rubyxl     1.000  i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
              rubyxl      0.120  (± 0.0%) i/s -      8.000  in  66.946044s

# rubyxl: Memory

Calculating -------------------------------------
              rubyxl   934.014M memsize (     1.973M retained)
                        14.413M objects (    20.215k retained)
                        50.000  strings (    50.000  retained)

# simple_xlsx_reader: Speed

Warming up --------------------------------------
  simple_xlsx_reader     1.000  i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
  simple_xlsx_reader      0.257  (± 0.0%) i/s -     16.000  in  62.632245s

# simple_xlsx_reader: Memory

Calculating -------------------------------------
  simple_xlsx_reader   462.283M memsize (   610.039k retained)
                         8.210M objects (     5.383k retained)
                        50.000  strings (    50.000  retained)

# creek: Speed

Warming up --------------------------------------
               creek     1.000  i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
               creek      0.366  (± 0.0%) i/s -     22.000  in  60.210546s

# creek: Memory

Calculating -------------------------------------
               creek   911.538M memsize (   808.237k retained)
                        13.180M objects (     6.099k retained)
                        50.000  strings (    50.000  retained)

# roo: Speed

Warming up --------------------------------------
                 roo     1.000  i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
                 roo      0.285  (± 0.0%) i/s -     18.000  in  63.319667s

# roo: Memory

Calculating -------------------------------------
                 roo   168.783M memsize (     1.327M retained)
                         2.232M objects (    11.058k retained)
                        50.000  strings (    50.000  retained)

# xsv: Speed

Warming up --------------------------------------
                 xsv     1.000  i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
                 xsv      1.447  (± 0.0%) i/s -     87.000  in  60.262783s

# xsv: Memory

Calculating -------------------------------------
                 xsv    80.865M memsize (   361.884k retained)
                       858.294k objects (     3.163k retained)
                        50.000  strings (    50.000  retained)