Introduction

We performed all the tests with the multi-threaded benchmark tool sysbench (version 0.4.8).

http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/

This tool was primarily written for MySQL benchs and is very I/O intensive. Nowadays it’s one of the most appreciated tool for general I/O benchs.

Read bench commands

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000 –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0 –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndrd cleanup

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000 –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0 –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndrd prepare

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000 –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0 –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndrd run

Write bench commands

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000  –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0  –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndwr cleanup

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000  –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0  –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndwr prepare

sysbench –test=fileio –max-time=60 –max-requests=100000000  –file-num=1 –file-extra-flags=direct –file-fsync-freq=0  –file-total-size=128M –file-test-mode=rndwr run

Forces in presence

The goal is to be the most objective as possible, so we choose the closest configuration on each instance provider.

Flexiscale

ubuntu amd64 8.04 LTS

• 1 GiB RAM
• 20 GiB of storage

Gogrid

Centos amd64 5.1

• 1 GiB RAM
• database-server instance

EC2

ubuntu amd64 9.04

• small instance
• 1.7 GiB RAM

NiftyName

ubuntu amd64 9.04

• 1 GiB RAM
• 50 GiB of storage

Read

Transfer MB/sec : we are twice fast as the fastest competitor !

EC2, which is the most popular offer, suffers of very poor read performances.

I/O requests per second : it matchs read transfer values

Write

Transfer MB/sec : EC2 is a (slighty) more serious competitor

I/O requests/sec

Conclusion

NiftyName supremacy is undeniable. NiftyName does not forget performances against features. What is done is well done, we are trying to reach the highest quality level, it’s significant for a common production environment.