Benchmarking Cloud Serving
Systems with YCSB
Brian F. Cooper, Adam Silberstein, Erwin Tam, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Russell Sears
Yahoo! Research
Presenter Duncan
Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems
with YCSB
• Benchmarking vs Testing
• Any difference?
• My opinion
– Benchmarking: Performance
– Testing: usability test, security test, performance
etc…
Motivation
• A lot of new systems in Cloud for data storage and
management
– MongoDB, MySQL, Asterix, etc..
• Tradeoff
– E.g. Append update to a sequential disk-log
• Good for write, bad for read
– Synchronous replication
• copies up to date, but high write latency
• How to choose?
– Use benchmark to model your scenario!
Evaluate Performance =?
• Latency
– Users don’t want to wait!
• Throughput
– Want to serve more requests!
• Inherent tradeoff between latency and
throughput
– More requests => more resource contention=>
higher latency
Which system is better?
• “Typically application designers must decide on an acceptable latency,
and provision enough servers to achieve the desired throughput”
• achieve the desired latency and throughput
with fewer servers.
– Desired latency:0.1 sec, 100 request/sec
– MongoDB, 10 server
– Asterix DB, 15 server
What else to evaluate?
• Cloud platform
• Scalability
– Good scalability=>performance proportional to #
of servers
• Elasticity
– Good elasticity=>performance improvement with
small disruption
A Short Summary
• Evaluate performance = evaluate latency,
throughput, scalability, elasticity
• A better system= less machine to achieve the
performance goal
YCSB
• Data generator
• Workload generator
• YCSB client
– Interface to communicate with DB
YCSB Data Generator
• A table with F fields and N records
• Each field => a random string
• E.g. 1,000 byte records, F=10, 100 bytes per
field
Workload Generator
• Basic operations
– Insert, update, read, scan
– No join, aggregate etc.
• Able to control the distributions of:
• Which operation to perform
– E.g. 0.95 read, 0.05 update, 0 scan => read-heavy workload
• Which record to read or write
– Uniform
– Zipfian: some records are extremely popular
– Latest: recent records are more popular
YCSB Client
• A script
– Use the script to run the benchmark
• Workload parameter files
– You can change the parameter
• Java program
• DB interface layer
– You can implement the interface for your DB system
Experiments
• Experiment Setup:
– 6 servers
– YCSB client on another server
– Cassandra, HBase, MySQL, PNUTS
• Update heavy, read heavy, read only, read
latest, short range scan workload.
Future Work
• Availability
– Impact of failure on the system performance
• Replication
– Impact to performance when increase replication
4 criteria
• Author’s 4 criteria for a good benchmark:
– Relevance to application
– Portability
• Not just for 1 system!
– Scalability
• Not just for small system, small data!
– simplicity
Reference
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Benchmarking Cloud Serving Systems with YCSB, Brian F. Cooper, Adam Silberstein,
Erwin Tam, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Russell Sears, SOCC 10
BG: A Benchmark to Evaluate Interactive Social Networking Actions, Sumita
Barahmand, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, CIDR 13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(computing)
• Thank You!
• Questions?
Why a new benchmark?
• Most cloud systems do not have a SQL
interface => hard to implement complex
queries
• Benchmark only for specific applications
– TPC-W for E-commerce
– TPC-C for apps that mange, sell, distribute
product/service
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