Quick Redis Benchmark: AWS vs. Azure
Bryan Helmig / June 8, 2013
Do not consider this a complete benchmark, this is just a quick comparison I ran in 5 or so spare minutes on a Saturday. Comparing m1.medium on AWS to Medium on Azure, I selected the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS disk image, ran these commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rwky/redis $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo apt-get install redis-server
Which automatically started the redis server in the background, running a quick benchmark gave us:
AWS
- m1.medium type
- 1 vCPU, 2 ECU
- 3.75gb RAM
- $0.12/hr on demand
- $0.028/hr reserved one year
$ redis-benchmark -q -n 100000 PING_INLINE: 19312.48 requests per second PING_BULK: 19260.40 requests per second SET: 19569.47 requests per second GET: 19297.57 requests per second INCR: 19758.94 requests per second LPUSH: 19758.94 requests per second LPOP: 19561.81 requests per second SADD: 19607.84 requests per second SPOP: 19338.62 requests per second LPUSH (needed to benchmark LRANGE): 19708.32 requests per second LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements): 11592.86 requests per second LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements): 6186.59 requests per second LRANGE_500 (first 450 elements): 4561.42 requests per second LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements): 3720.93 requests per second MSET (10 keys): 19944.16 requests per second
Azure
- Medium type
- 2 core
- 3.5gb RAM
- $0.12/hr on demand
- $0.08/hr reserved one year
$ redis-benchmark -q -n 100000 PING_INLINE: 60096.15 requests per second PING_BULK: 59136.61 requests per second SET: 61387.36 requests per second GET: 60827.25 requests per second INCR: 60975.61 requests per second LPUSH: 61387.36 requests per second LPOP: 61050.06 requests per second SADD: 61842.92 requests per second SPOP: 61842.92 requests per second LPUSH (needed to benchmark LRANGE): 61919.50 requests per second LRANGE_100 (first 100 elements): 30220.61 requests per second LRANGE_300 (first 300 elements): 12103.61 requests per second LRANGE_500 (first 450 elements): 8563.84 requests per second LRANGE_600 (first 600 elements): 6801.80 requests per second MSET (10 keys): 42900.04 requests per second
Conclusion
While not an exact 1-1 comparison, based on the roughly equivalent instance type Microsoft is positioning: Azure is about 2.5-3x as fast, and a great deal if you prefer on-demand. Once you start reserving instances, Azure gets a little more expensive (about 2.5x).
About the Author
Bryan Helmig is a co-founder and CTO at Zapier, jazz/blues musician and fine beer and whiskey lover.
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