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Basho Bench is a benchmarking tool created to conduct accurate and repeatable performance tests and stress tests, and produce performance graphs.
Originally developed to benchmark Riak, it exposes a pluggable driver interface and has been extended to serve as a benchmarking tool across a variety of projects.
Basho Bench focuses on two metrics of performance:
- Throughput: number of operations performed in a timeframe, captured in aggregate across all operation types
- Latency: time to complete single operations, captured in quantiles per-operation
You must have Erlang/OTP R16 or later to build and run Basho
Bench, and R to generate graphs of your benchmarks. A sane
GNU-style build system is also required if you want to use make
to build the project.
git clone git://github.com/basho/basho_bench.git
cd basho_bench
make all
This will build an executable script, basho_bench
, which you can
use to run one of the existing benchmark configurations from the
examples/
directory. You will likely have to make some minor directory
changes to the configs in order to get the examples running (see, e.g., the
source of the bitcask and innostore benchmark config files for direction).
$ ./basho_bench examples/riakc_pb.config
INFO: Est. data size: 95.37 MB
INFO: Using target ip {127,0,0,1} for worker 1
INFO: Starting max worker: <0.55.0>
At the end of the benchmark, results will be available in CSV
format in the tests/current/
directory. Now you can generate a
graph:
$ make results
priv/summary.r -i tests/current
Loading required package: proto
Loading required package: reshape
Loading required package: plyr
Loading required package: digest
null device
1
$ open tests/current/summary.png
If make results fails with the error /usr/bin/env: Rscript --vanilla: No such file or directory
please edit priv/summary.r and replace the first line with the full path to the Rscript binary on your system
If you receive the error message Warning: unable to access index for repository http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib
it means the default R repo for installing additional packages is broken, you can change it as follows:
$ R
> chooseCRANmirror()
Selection: 69
quit()
make results
Basho Bench has many drivers, each with its own configuration, and a number of key and value generators that you can use to customize your benchmark. It is also straightforward โ with less than 200 lines of Erlang code โ to create custom drivers that can exercise other systems or perform custom operations. These are covered more in detail in the documentation.
The riak-java-client can be used to benchmark a Riak cluster. There
is an example configuration in examples/riakc_java.config
. You
will need the bench_shim project. You will also need to uncomment
and edit the following line in basho_benchโs rebar.config
, adding
your own erlang cookie value:
%% {escript_emu_args, "%%! -name [email protected] -setcookie YOUR_ERLANG_COOKIE\n"}.
You can generate graphs using gnuplot.
$ ./priv/gp_throughput.sh
$ ./priv/gp_latencies.sh
By passing -h
option to each script, help messages are shown.
Some of options for these scripts are:
-d TEST_DIR
: comma separated list of directories which include test result CSV files-t TERMINAL_TYPE
: gnuplot terminal type-P
: just print gnuplot script without drawing graph
For example, you can draw graphs with ASCII characters
by the option -t dumb
, which is useful in non-graphical
environment or quick sharing of result in chat.
Also, you can plot multiple test runs on a single plot by using โ-dโ switch.
A typical benchmark scenario is that Basho Bench spawn Erlang VM and executes the driver inside. However, there is needs to catch performance metrics from an application executed remotely within dedicated environment (e.g. probe performance from live system; benchmark an application inside C or Java node, etc). Bash Bench implements a generic basho_bench_driver_cluster
that acts as proxy. It uses Erlang distribution to delegate benchmark responsibility to remote actor, which is randomly selected from configured pool.
Basho Bench do not define how the actors are spawned within SUT. It only defined a communication protocol. The actor is responsible to handle the message:
{pid(), atom(), key(), val()}
pid()
: request originator, actor shall respond to this processatom()
: id of operation to execute as defined in config filekey()
: materialized key value as defined by key generator functionval()
: materialized value as defined by value generator function
The actor executes the request, measures performance and respond to originator process pid()
with one of the message {ok, microsecond()}
or {error, reason()}
See cluster.config example for details. Use following command to spawn benchmark
./basho_bench -C nocookie -N [email protected] -J [email protected] examples/cluster.config
We encourage contributions to Basho Bench from the community.
- Fork the
basho_bench
repository on Github. - Clone your fork or add the remote if you already have a clone of
the repository.
git clone [email protected]:yourusername/basho_bench.git # or git remote add mine [email protected]:yourusername/basho_bench.git
- Create a topic branch for your change.
git checkout -b some-topic-branch
- Make your change and commit. Use a clear and descriptive commit message, spanning multiple lines if detailed explanation is needed.
- Push to your fork of the repository and then send a pull-request
through Github.
git push mine some-topic-branch
- A Basho engineer or community maintainer will review your patch and merge it into the main repository or send you feedback.