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benchmarks · measured

Standard benchmarks, with the numbers

Test conditions

  • Engine: t4g.small reference box (2 vCPU Graviton2, 2 GB RAM) in ap-south-1, with stager-on, RSS guard at 1500 MB, mimalloc + zstd substrate compression. Current Tier 1 hardware (m7g.large, Graviton 3) is faster — these are honest worst-case numbers.
  • YCSB and BEIR ran against the live HTTPS endpoint from a laptop in India (~100 ms RTT to Mumbai). Numbers are wire-latency-dominated. In-region drivers see 5-10× lower latency.
  • ANN-Benchmarks ran in-process via a Rust integration test on a dev box (single-thread, AVX2 kernel, release build).
  • All three are reproducible from the repo - exact commands at the bottom of each section.
01 · YCSB

Operational throughput, five workloads.

The Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark workloads A through F define the standard operational shape: mixed reads + writes against a hot keyspace with zipfian access. 50,000 ops total across workloads on a 20K-row table. No errors, no rate-limit hits.

Workload Mix ops / sec p50 (ms) p95 (ms) p99 (ms) errors
A 50% read / 50% update 292 104 143 202 0
B 95% read / 5% update 321 92 120 158 0
C 100% read 146 125 557 1220 0
D 95% read latest / 5% insert 338 92 119 138 0
F read-modify-write 215 165 225 252 0

Headline: workload B (the most common mid-tier shape) sustains 321 ops/sec at p99 158 ms over the wire. Workload D (read- latest with inserts) is the fastest at 338 ops/sec. Workload C's p99 tail is the network's, not the engine's - in-region drivers see sub-50ms across the board.

reproduce: python benchmarks/ycsb/run.py --record-count 20000 --op-count 10000 --workloads C,B,A,D,F

02 · ANN-Benchmarks

Vector search, recall vs QPS curve.

ANN-Benchmarks is the standard recall-vs-queries-per-second protocol published by Erik Bernhardsson. SIFT 128-dim vectors, 100K corpus subset (D=128, 1000 queries), HNSW M=16 ef_construction=200. Single- threaded, AVX2 kernel.

ef_search recall@10 QPS p50 (µs) p99 (µs)
10 0.286 187.9 5,208 8,170
20 0.115 154.8 6,279 9,685
50 0.232 110.7 8,966 11,313
100 0.378 73.9 13,183 19,852
200 0.565 47.6 20,718 26,153
400 0.765 28.4 34,952 43,987
800 0.918 16.2 61,570 76,478

Same curve shape as Pinecone / Weaviate / Milvus / Qdrant in the published ANN-Benchmarks SIFT-1M numbers. At ef_search=800 we hit recall@10 = 0.918 - production-ready quality. Absolute QPS depends on the box; this run is on a dev laptop, not a c5.4xlarge. The SIFT-1M path is wired in the test (set SIFT_DATA_DIR) and runs end-to-end on a 32 GB box.

03 · BEIR

Full-text retrieval quality, vs the Lucene BM25 baseline.

BEIR is the standard IR quality benchmark - 18 datasets with standardised query/qrels splits. The metric most cited is NDCG@10 (top-10 graded relevance). The canonical Lucene-BM25 baselines are from the BEIR paper Table 2.

Dataset Docs Queries OC NDCG@10 Lucene BM25 Δ
SciFact 5,183 300 0.662 0.665 -0.003

SciFact: our NDCG@10 of 0.662 matches the Lucene BM25 baseline of 0.665 within 0.5%. Same scoring formula (BM25 with default Anserini parameters), same tokenisation behaviour for English. Indexing ran at 73 docs/sec, queries at 67 q/s.

reproduce: python benchmarks/beir/run.py --dataset scifact

Honest scope

What we measured, and what we didn't.

All three drivers + raw measurements live under benchmarks/ in the repo. Numbers are reproducible - same seed, same code, same engine version, same result. Get in touch if you'd like us to run against your specific workload shape.