By Greg Luck
Chief Technical Officer
Greg Luck is a leading technology entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in high-performance in-memory computing. He is the founder and inventor of Ehcache, a widely used open source Java distributed cache that was acquired by Software AG (Terracotta) in 2009, where he served as CTO. Prior to that, Greg was the Chief Architect at Australian start-up Wotif.com that went public on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:WTF) in 2006. Greg is a current member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee, and since 2007 has been the Specification Lead for JSR 107 (Java Specification Requests) JCACHE. Greg has a master's degree in Information Technology from Queensland University of Technology and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.
View all blogs by the authorNov 3, 2015
Hazelcast blasts pass competitors in performance, as measured by their own tools!
We should start calling Hazelcast, Hazelfast. Hazelcast 3.6 EA shipped last week, and it is very fast. Compared to what, you ask? Well, compared to everything. How do we know this? Well, our competitors made their own comparative benchmarking tools, YardStick and RadarGun. And we ran them against Hazelcast as we were developing 3.6. We were getting faster anyway thanks to our dedicated performance team, but there is nothing like competition to spur improvement.
Hazelcast versus Infinispan/JBoss Data Grid
On RadarGun, the Infinispan tool, we are faster in all tests with the biggest margin begin 80%.
See the full benchmark results here.
Source code for the benchmark is here: See the results of the Radar-Gun Benchmark https://github.com/Danny-Hazelcast/radargun.
Hazelcast versus Apache Ignite/GridGain
On YardStick, the GridGain tool, we are faster in all tests with the biggest margin being 90% faster.
Source code for each benchmark is on GitHub:
- yardstick-Hazelcast https://github.com/hazelcast/yardstick-hazelcast
- yardstick-Ignite: https://github.com/hazelcast/yardstick-ignite
Visit the Hazelcast vs GridGain page to learn more.
Oracle Coherence
It turns out that it is a breach of Oracle’s OTN license to publish benchmarks. So we can’t comment at all on our benchmark results compared to Oracle Coherence. But, there is no such restriction on publishing a Benchmark Suite. We can send it to you and you can run it yourself.
