Overview

The sql-benchmark provides simple benchmark of several database drivers in several languages. Benchmarks are intended to be simple so that they can be implemented easily for several languages and SQL databases. Some of the goals are:

• Evaluate the performance of a database driver,
• Compare the performance of different languages when connecting to a database,
• Have a rough comparison on simple SQL queries on different databases.

Languages

• Java Benchmark
• Ada Benchmark
• Python Benchmark

Databases

Three SQL databases are supported:

• SQLite,
• MySQL/MariaDB,
• PostgreSQL

Before running the SQL benchmark of MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL, you must create the sqlbench database and give access to the sqlbench user.

The SQLite database is created automatically.

MySQL/MariaDB setup

1. Create the 'sqlbench' database in MySQL/MariaDB

mysql -u root
mysql> create database sqlbench;

2. Create the 'sqlbench' user and give the access rights:

mysql> grant select, insert, update, delete,
       create, drop, create temporary tables, execute,
       show view on sqlbench.* to sqlbench@'localhost';
mysql> flush privileges;

Postgresql setup

To create manually the database, you can proceed to the following steps:

1. Create the 'sqlbench' user and configure the password (enter 'sqlbench' for the password or update the configuration sqlbench.properties file):

sudo -u postgres createuser sqlbench --pwprompt

2. Create the 'sqlbench' database in Postgresql

sudo -u postgres createdb -O sqlbench sqlbench

Running

The script run-all.sh can be used to run all the benchmark and produce the results. Before running it, make sure you have built the Ada and Java benchmark programs as well as the Ada aggregator tool. To build, run the following commands.

cd ado
./configure
make
cd ../java
mvn compile assembly:single
cd ../tools
./configure
make
cd ..

Then, simply run the script:

./run-all.sh

Results

CONNECT; SELECT 1; CLOSE

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	23.68 us	311.0 us	5.541 ms
Java	187.7 us	895.8 us	10.80 ms
Python	42.00 us	398.5 us	6.071 ms

DO 1

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada		19.04 us
Java		53.72 us
Python		33.03 us

DROP table; CREATE table

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	216.9 us	496.2 ms	42.64 ms
Java	1.698 ms	504.9 ms	45.03 ms
Python	122.5 ms	498.6 ms	41.24 ms

INSERT INTO table

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	73.59 us	118.5 us	160.6 us
Java	96.20 us	241.4 us	119.3 us
Python	3.684 us	290.7 us	119.1 us

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	25.63 us	75.60 us	105.5 us
Java	5.096 us	97.38 us	105.6 us
Python	3.457 us	47.31 us	148.7 us

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	27.60 us	61.30 us	99.43 us
Java	5.115 us	101.7 us	92.56 us
Python	8.766 us	51.76 us	128.0 us

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 100

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	37.41 us	131.1 us	161.6 us
Java	15.53 us	174.5 us	223.8 us
Python	60.43 us	102.0 us	236.6 us

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 500

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	78.14 us	328.6 us	305.7 us
Java	62.12 us	462.2 us	616.2 us
Python	297.8 us	300.2 us	462.2 us

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 1000

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	132.0 us	544.9 us	456.6 us
Java	121.8 us	728.2 us	871.6 us
Python	605.6 us	551.6 us	730.3 us

SELECT 1

	sqlite	mysql	postgresql
Ada	9.501 us	35.60 us	87.55 us
Java	5.629 us	70.61 us	104.4 us
Python	1.530 us	78.13 us	89.66 us