I thought you guys might be interested in the benchmarking I did with PyPy
1.9. This is using Couchbase 2.0 beta on a 4 core, 1 GB RAM desktop VM.
*PyPy*
PythonMemcache
Set data...
cmds/sec: 13963.8015515
Get data...
cmds/sec: 14510.1441181
MemcachedClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 1665.47185465
Get data...
cmds/sec: 2730.90764793
VBucketAwareClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 2780.81998621
Get data...
cmds/sec: 2441.40494033
CouchbaseClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 490.537448891
Get data...
cmds/sec: 482.249937762
Compared to a Cpython run on the same server.
*CPython 2.7*
PythonMemcache
Set data...
cmds/sec: 1235.09524185
Get data...
cmds/sec: 1240.61652836
MemcachedClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 1752.96316862
Get data...
cmds/sec: 2100.30476749
VBucketAwareClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 2160.82053381
Get data...
cmds/sec: 2116.85847056
CouchbaseClient
Set data...
cmds/sec: 508.925204624
Get data...
cmds/sec: 487.211121589
I suspect that the reason the PythonMemcache test is so much faster is
because it is pure python (CPython extension calls are slower in PyPy than
in CPython which can negate the performance increase,
http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#do-cpython-extension-modules-w...)
and doesn't do any threading (Threading hurts python performance because of
the GIL, http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2010/01/python-gil-visualized.html).