May 2014 Summaries

Aerospike, a database management system, has doubled its performance to achieve 1 million transactions per second (TPS) in YCSB tests. The company published a "recipe" detailing how to tune a database for this level of performance on a $5k server. To recreate these tests, users need the right hardware, including a bare-metal server with two physical CPUs and 10 Gb ethernet with multiple queues. They also need enough clients to generate 1 million transactions per second. Aerospike's performance increase was achieved by applying many of the changes from the original "recipe" and updating the open source YCSB test framework to support the latest version of Aerospike 3.x.

Aerospike has successfully demonstrated its ability to deliver 1 million transactions per second (TPS) on a $5,000 server by tuning its database for optimal performance. To achieve this, Aerospike applied the "recipe" published last year, which involved optimizing hardware and software configurations, as well as configuring service threads and using multiple queues. The company used a custom-built test framework based on YCSB to generate 1M TPS, with balanced reads and writes reaching 1M TPS, and read-heavy workloads reaching 1.6M TPS. The results show a significant improvement over previous tests, with a 100% increase in performance when using the latest version of Aerospike.