This is a simple application to act as a benchmark comparing the Ferma Graph-to-Object layer with Totorom, TinkerPop Frames, and TinkerPop Blueprints. It will help us ensure Ferma remains the top-performing option.
For more information see the main Ferma wiki page.
After starting the Ferma project we decided to do a benchmark suite that compares Ferma with TinkerPop Frames, Totorom, and raw Blueprint calls. The purpose of Ferma is to be a high-performance alternative to all of these with the same convince of frames (annotations). As such having these benchmarks will help keep us on track as we develop the Ferma project.
The way I configured the benchmark is simple. I do the same task under each framework for a set number of iterations, recording the time it takes under each framework. I then provide a % comparing each of the alternative solutions to Ferma. A % of 100% means Ferma and the framework it was compared to took the same time to execute. If the percentage is below 100% then Ferma performed slower than the alternative, if the percentage is above 100% then Ferma out-performed the alternative. You will see below that Ferma outperforms every alternative by a significant margin. The only exception is when compared against raw Blueprints, but this is to be expected.
Here is the output I get on my computer (this is a very modern and overpowered computer):
=== testGetFramedVerticesUntyped ===
blueprints comparison: 93.24348944761809%
tinkerpop3 comparison: 1698.9392272131245%
totorom comparison: 423.67469757091635%
frames comparison: Not capable
gremlin comparison: 390.5251428045431%
peapod comparison: Not Capable
=== testGetFramedVerticesTyped ===
blueprints comparison: Not Capable
tinkerpop3 comparison: Not Capable
totorom comparison: 403.4655305796317%
frames comparison: 99.93781089933795%
gremlin comparison: Not Capable
peapod comparison: 2074.05266481737%
=== testGetFramedVerticesAndNextUntyped ===
blueprints comparison: 80.86610293318655%
tinkerpop3 comparison: 1171.5222612963312%
totorom comparison: 493.3926104721222%
frames comparison: Not capable
gremlin comparison: 338.6254392506979%
peapod comparison: Not Capable
=== testGetFramedVerticesAndNextTyped ===
blueprints comparison: Not Capable
tinkerpop3 comparison: Not Capable
totorom comparison: 349.97570532583313%
frames comparison: 187.0806085510584%
gremlin comparison: 315.60038209596655%
peapod comparison: 1670.368656863122%
=== testGetAnnotatedAdjacencies ===
blueprints comparison: Not capable
tinkerpop3 comparison: Not Capable
totorom comparison: Not capable
frames comparison: 209.05528566425681%
gremlin comparison: Not capable
peapod comparison: 265.72131591027147%
The official source repository for Ferma Benchmarks is located on the Syncleus Gerrit instance and can be cloned using the following command.
git clone http://gerrit.syncleus.com/Ferma-benchmark
We also maintain a GitHub clone of the official repository which can be found here. Finally Syncleus also hosts an instance of GitLab which has a clone of the repository which can be found here.