Looking for KV store performance benchmark

[Gaurav Kumar]

Is there a benchmark for KV store performance? I am planning to use KV store for storing web sessions and was wondering if it would be okay performance wise? Ideally, I would like to know performance across dimensions such as # of concurrent clients, # of request/sec, value size. 

[Armon Dadgar]

Gaurav,

There is some basic benchmarking done here:

https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/master/bench

You can adapt the scripts and setup there to do benchmarking in your own environment,

as the results are very dependent on hardware and networking setups.

Best Regards,

Armon Dadgar

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[Michael Fischer]

Not to unnecessarily repeat myself but... 

Consul is really intended for service- and configuration-related information, not application data, with relatively low write rates and high read rates.  It's not really built for storing web session information. 

I'd suggest Redis, MySQL, or one of the many other databases out there that might suit your needs.

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[Gaurav Kumar]

Thanks Armon and Michael. 

@Michael- 

That's the kind of feedback/discussion I am looking for. My motivation is to find a fine balance between consolidation (using Consul as general purpose KV store) and fit-for-use(using Redis for sessions).  I shall send you an off-list email to learn more from you. 

Cheers,

Gaurav