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| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| The purpose of these user-submitted performance figures is to |
| give current and potential users of Lucene a sense |
| of how well Lucene scales. If the requirements for an upcoming |
| project is similar to an existing benchmark, you |
| will also have something to work with when designing the system |
| architecture for the application. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| If you've conducted performance tests with Lucene, we'd |
| appreciate if you can submit these figures for display |
| on this page. Post these figures to the lucene-user mailing list |
| using this |
| <a href="benchmarktemplate.xml">template</a>. |
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| <a name="Benchmark Variables"><strong>Benchmark Variables</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| <ul> |
| <p> |
| <b>Hardware Environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: Self-explanatory |
| (yes/no)</li> |
| <li><i>CPU</i>: Self-explanatory (Type, Speed and Quantity)</li> |
| <li><i>RAM</i>: Self-explanatory</li> |
| <li><i>Drive configuration</i>: Self-explanatory (IDE, SCSI, |
| RAID-1, RAID-5)</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Software environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Java Version</i>: Version of Java SDK/JRE that is run |
| </li> |
| <li><i>Java VM</i>: Server/client VM, Sun VM/JRockIt</li> |
| <li><i>OS Version</i>: Self-explanatory</li> |
| <li><i>Location of index</i>: Is the index stored in filesystem |
| or database? Is it on the same server(local) or |
| over the network?</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Number of source documents</i>: Number of documents being |
| indexed</li> |
| <li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: |
| Self-explanatory</li> |
| <li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: |
| Self-explanatory</li> |
| <li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Where are the |
| documents being indexed located? |
| Filesystem, DB, http,etc</li> |
| <li><i>File type of source documents</i>: Types of files being |
| indexed, e.g. HTML files, XML files, PDF files, etc.</li> |
| <li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: Parsers used for parsing the |
| various files for indexing, |
| e.g. XML parser, HTML parser, etc.</li> |
| <li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: Type of Lucene analyzer used</li> |
| <li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: Number of Fields each |
| Document contains</li> |
| <li><i>Type of fields</i>: Type of each field</li> |
| <li><i>Index persistence</i>: Where the index is stored, e.g. |
| FSDirectory, SqlDirectory, etc</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Figures</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 indexing |
| runs)</i>: Time taken to index all files</li> |
| <li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: Time taken to index |
| 1000 files</li> |
| <li><i>Memory consumption</i>: Self-explanatory</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Notes</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Notes</i>: Any comments which don't belong in the above, |
| special tuning/strategies, etc</li> |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="User-submitted Benchmarks"><strong>User-submitted Benchmarks</strong></a> |
| </font> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr><td> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| These benchmarks have been kindly submitted by Lucene users for |
| reference purposes. |
| </p> |
| <p><b>We make NO guarantees regarding their accuracy or |
| validity.</b> |
| </p> |
| <p>We strongly recommend you conduct your own |
| performance benchmarks before deciding on a particular |
| hardware/software setup (and hopefully submit |
| these figures to us). |
| </p> |
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| <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> |
| <a name="Hamish Carpenter's benchmarks"><strong>Hamish Carpenter's benchmarks</strong></a> |
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| <blockquote> |
| <ul> |
| <p> |
| <b>Hardware Environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: yes</li> |
| <li><i>CPU</i>: Intel x86 P4 1.5Ghz</li> |
| <li><i>RAM</i>: 512 DDR</li> |
| <li><i>Drive configuration</i>: IDE 7200rpm Raid-1</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Software environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1 IBM JITC Enabled</li> |
| <li><i>Java VM</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>OS Version</i>: Debian Linux 2.4.18-686</li> |
| <li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Number of source documents</i>: Random generator. Set |
| to make 1M documents |
| in 2x500,000 batches.</li> |
| <li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: > 1GB if |
| stored</li> |
| <li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 1KB</li> |
| <li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Filesystem</li> |
| <li><i>File type of source documents</i>: Generated</li> |
| <li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: Default</li> |
| <li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 11</li> |
| <li><i>Type of fields</i>: 1 date, 1 id, 9 text</li> |
| <li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Figures</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 |
| indexing runs)</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 49 seconds</li> |
| <li><i>Memory consumption</i>:</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Notes</b><br /> |
| <p> |
| A windows client ran a random document generator which |
| created |
| documents based on some arrays of values and an excerpt |
| (approx 1kb) |
| from a text file of the bible (King James version).<br /> |
| These were submitted via a socket connection (open throughout |
| indexing process).<br /> |
| The index writer was not closed between index calls.<br /> |
| This created a 400Mb index in 23 files (after |
| optimization).<br /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <u>Query details</u>:<br /> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Set up a threaded class to start x number of simultaneous |
| threads to |
| search the above created index. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Query: +Domain:sos +(+((Name:goo*^2.0 Name:plan*^2.0) |
| (Teaser:goo* Tea |
| ser:plan*) (Details:goo* Details:plan*)) -Cancel:y) |
| +DisplayStartDate:[mkwsw2jk0 |
| -mq3dj1uq0] +EndDate:[mq3dj1uq0-ntlxuggw0] |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| This query counted 34000 documents and I limited the returned |
| documents |
| to 5. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| This is using Peter Halacsy's IndexSearcherCache slightly |
| modified to |
| be a singleton returned cached searchers for a given |
| directory. This |
| solved an initial problem with too many files open and |
| running out of |
| linux handles for them. |
| </p> |
| <pre> |
| Threads|Avg Time per query (ms) |
| 1 1009ms |
| 2 2043ms |
| 3 3087ms |
| 4 4045ms |
| .. . |
| .. . |
| 10 10091ms |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| I removed the two date range terms from the query and it made |
| a HUGE |
| difference in performance. With 4 threads the avg time |
| dropped to 900ms! |
| </p> |
| <p>Other query optimizations made little difference.</p> |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Hamish can be contacted at hamish at catalyst.net.nz. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> |
| <a name="Justin Greene's benchmarks"><strong>Justin Greene's benchmarks</strong></a> |
| </font> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr><td> |
| <blockquote> |
| <ul> |
| <p> |
| <b>Hardware Environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: No, but nominal |
| usage at time of indexing.</li> |
| <li><i>CPU</i>: Compaq Proliant 1850R/600 2 X pIII 600</li> |
| <li><i>RAM</i>: 1GB, 256MB allocated to JVM.</li> |
| <li><i>Drive configuration</i>: RAID 5 on Fibre Channel |
| Array</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Software environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1_06</li> |
| <li><i>Java VM</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>OS Version</i>: Winnt 4/Sp6</li> |
| <li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Number of source documents</i>: about 60K</li> |
| <li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: 6.5GB</li> |
| <li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 100K |
| (6.5GB/60K documents)</li> |
| <li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: filesystem on |
| NTFS</li> |
| <li><i>File type of source documents</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: Currently the only parser |
| used is the Quiotix html |
| parser.</li> |
| <li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: SimpleAnalyzer</li> |
| <li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 8</li> |
| <li><i>Type of fields</i>: All strings, and all are stored |
| and indexed.</li> |
| <li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Figures</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 |
| indexing runs)</i>: 1 hour 12 minutes, 1 hour 14 minutes and 1 hour 17 |
| minutes. Note that the # |
| and size of documents changes daily.</li> |
| <li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Memory consumption</i>: JVM is given 256MB and uses it |
| all.</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Notes</b><br /> |
| <p> |
| We have 10 threads reading files from the filesystem and |
| parsing and |
| analyzing them and the pushing them onto a queue and a single |
| thread poping |
| them from the queue and indexing. Note that we are indexing |
| email messages |
| and are storing the entire plaintext in of the message in the |
| index. If the |
| message contains attachment and we do not have a filter for |
| the attachment |
| (ie. we do not do PDFs yet), we discard the data. |
| </p> |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Justin can be contacted at tvxh-lw4x at spamex.com. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
| </td></tr> |
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| <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> |
| <a name="Daniel Armbrust's benchmarks"><strong>Daniel Armbrust's benchmarks</strong></a> |
| </font> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr><td> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| My disclaimer is that this is a very poor "Benchmark". It was not done for raw speed, |
| nor was the total index built in one shot. The index was created on several different |
| machines (all with these specs, or very similar), with each machine indexing batches of 500,000 to |
| 1 million documents per batch. Each of these small indexes was then moved to a |
| much larger drive, where they were all merged together into a big index. |
| This process was done manually, over the course of several months, as the sources became available. |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <p> |
| <b>Hardware Environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: no - The machine had moderate to low load. However, the indexing process was built single |
| threaded, so it only took advantage of 1 of the processors. It usually got 100% of this processor.</li> |
| <li><i>CPU</i>: Sun Ultra 80 4 x 64 bit processors</li> |
| <li><i>RAM</i>: 4 GB Memory</li> |
| <li><i>Drive configuration</i>: Ultra-SCSI Wide 10000 RPM 36GB Drive</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Software environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.3.1</li> |
| <li><i>Java VM</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>OS Version</i>: Sun 5.8 (64 bit)</li> |
| <li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Number of source documents</i>: 13,820,517</li> |
| <li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: 87.3 GB</li> |
| <li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: 6.3 KB</li> |
| <li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: Filesystem</li> |
| <li><i>File type of source documents</i>: XML</li> |
| <li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: A home grown analyzer that simply removes stopwords.</li> |
| <li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 1 - 31</li> |
| <li><i>Type of fields</i>: All text, though 2 of them are dates (20001205) that we filter on</li> |
| <li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li> |
| <li><i>Index size</i>: 12.5 GB</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Figures</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 |
| indexing runs)</i>: For 617271 documents, 209698 seconds (or ~2.5 days)</li> |
| <li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 340 Seconds</li> |
| <li><i>Memory consumption</i>: (java executed with) java -Xmx1000m -Xss8192k so |
| 1 GB of memory was allotted to the indexer</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Notes</b><br /> |
| <p> |
| The source documents were XML. The "indexer" opened each document one at a time, ran an |
| XSL transformation on them, and then proceeded to index the stream. The indexer optimized |
| the index every 50,000 documents (on this run) though previously, we optimized every |
| 300,000 documents. The performance didn't change much either way. We did no other |
| tuning (RAM Directories, separate process to pretransform the source material, etc) |
| to make it index faster. When all of these individual indexes were built, they were |
| merged together into the main index. That process usually took ~ a day. |
| </p> |
| </p> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Daniel can be contacted at Armbrust.Daniel at mayo.edu. |
| </p> |
| </blockquote> |
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| <a name="Geoffrey Peddle's benchmarks"><strong>Geoffrey Peddle's benchmarks</strong></a> |
| </font> |
| </td></tr> |
| <tr><td> |
| <blockquote> |
| <p> |
| I'm doing a technical evaluation of search engines |
| for Ariba, an enterprise application software company. |
| I compared Lucene to a commercial C language based |
| search engine which I'll refer to as vendor A. |
| Overall Lucene's performance was similar to vendor A |
| and met our application's requirements. I've |
| summarized our results below. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Search scalability:<br /> |
| We ran a set of 16 queries in a single thread for 20 |
| iterations. We report below the times for the last 15 |
| iterations (ie after the system was warmed up). The |
| 4 sets of results below are for indexes with between |
| 50,000 documents to 600,000 documents. Although the |
| times for Lucene grew faster with document count than |
| vendor A they were comparable. |
| </p> |
| <pre> |
| 50K documents |
| Lucene 5.2 seconds |
| A 7.2 |
| 200K |
| Lucene 15.3 |
| A 15.2 |
| 400K |
| Lucene 28.2 |
| A 25.5 |
| 600K |
| Lucene 41 |
| A 33 |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| Individual Query times:<br /> |
| Total query times are very similar between the 2 |
| systems but there were larger differences when you |
| looked at individual queries. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| For simple queries with small result sets Vendor A was |
| consistently faster than Lucene. For example a |
| single query might take vendor A 32 thousands of a |
| second and Lucene 64 thousands of a second. Both |
| times are however well within acceptable response |
| times for our application. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| For simple queries with large result sets Vendor A was |
| consistently slower than Lucene. For example a |
| single query might take vendor A 300 thousands of a |
| second and Lucene 200 thousands of a second. |
| For more complex queries of the form (term1 or term2 |
| or term3) AND (term4 or term5 or term6) AND (term7 or |
| term8) the results were more divergent. For |
| queries with small result sets Vendor A generally had |
| very short response times and sometimes Lucene had |
| significantly larger response times. For example |
| Vendor A might take 16 thousands of a second and |
| Lucene might take 156. I do not consider it to be |
| the case that Lucene's response time grew unexpectedly |
| but rather that Vendor A appeared to be taking |
| advantage of an optimization which Lucene didn't have. |
| (I believe there's been discussions on the dev |
| mailing list on complex queries of this sort.) |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Index Size:<br /> |
| For our test data the size of both indexes grew |
| linearly with the number of documents. Note that |
| these sizes are compact sizes, not maximum size during |
| index loading. The numbers below are from running du |
| -k in the directory containing the index data. The |
| larger number's below for Vendor A may be because it |
| supports additional functionality not available in |
| Lucene. I think it's the constant rate of growth |
| rather than the absolute amount which is more |
| important. |
| </p> |
| <pre> |
| 50K documents |
| Lucene 45516 K |
| A 63921 |
| 200K |
| Lucene 171565 |
| A 228370 |
| 400K |
| Lucene 345717 |
| A 457843 |
| 600K |
| Lucene 511338 |
| A 684913 |
| </pre> |
| <p> |
| Indexing Times:<br /> |
| These times are for reading the documents from our |
| database, processing them, inserting them into the |
| document search product and index compacting. Our |
| data has a large number of fields/attributes. For |
| this test I restricted Lucene to 24 attributes to |
| reduce the number of files created. Doing this I was |
| able to specify a merge width for Lucene of 60. I |
| found in general that Lucene indexing performance to |
| be very sensitive to changes in the merge width. |
| Note also that our application does a full compaction |
| after inserting every 20,000 documents. These times |
| are just within our acceptable limits but we are |
| interested in alternatives to increase Lucene's |
| performance in this area. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <pre> |
| 600K documents |
| Lucene 81 minutes |
| A 34 minutes |
| </pre> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| (I don't have accurate results for all sizes on this |
| measure but believe that the indexing time for both |
| solutions grew essentially linearly with size. The |
| time to compact the index generally grew with index |
| size but it's a small percent of overall time at these |
| sizes.) |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <p> |
| <b>Hardware Environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Dedicated machine for indexing</i>: yes</li> |
| <li><i>CPU</i>: Dell Pentium 4 CPU 2.00Ghz, 1cpu</li> |
| <li><i>RAM</i>: 1 GB Memory</li> |
| <li><i>Drive configuration</i>: Fujitsu MAM3367MP SCSI </li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Software environment</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Java Version</i>: 1.4.2_02</li> |
| <li><i>Java VM</i>: JDK</li> |
| <li><i>OS Version</i>: Windows XP </li> |
| <li><i>Location of index</i>: local</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Lucene indexing variables</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Number of source documents</i>: 600,000</li> |
| <li><i>Total filesize of source documents</i>: from database</li> |
| <li><i>Average filesize of source documents</i>: from database</li> |
| <li><i>Source documents storage location</i>: from database</li> |
| <li><i>File type of source documents</i>: XML</li> |
| <li><i>Parser(s) used, if any</i>: </li> |
| <li><i>Analyzer(s) used</i>: small variation on WhitespaceAnalyzer</li> |
| <li><i>Number of fields per document</i>: 24</li> |
| <li><i>Type of fields</i>: A1 keyword, 1 big unindexed, rest are unstored and a mix of tokenized/untokenized</li> |
| <li><i>Index persistence</i>: FSDirectory</li> |
| <li><i>Index size</i>: 12.5 GB</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Figures</b><br /> |
| <li><i>Time taken (in ms/s as an average of at least 3 |
| indexing runs)</i>: 600,000 documents in 81 minutes (du -k = 511338)</li> |
| <li><i>Time taken / 1000 docs indexed</i>: 123 documents/second</li> |
| <li><i>Memory consumption</i>: -ms256m -mx512m -Xss4m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M</li> |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| <b>Notes</b><br /> |
| <p> |
| <li>merge width of 60</li> |
| <li>did a compact every 20,000 documents</li> |
| </p> |
| </p> |
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