Rally runs on a separate host to benchmark the performance of the Elasticsearch cluster that is hosted on a VxRail cluster, as shown in the figure below.
Figure 9. Commands used for the http_logs track
Using Rally, we selected and ran the http_logs track. This track contains data gathered about the trips of Yellow company Taxis in New York in 2015. It can be downloaded from https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/2015-Yellow-Taxi-Trip-Data/ba8s-jw6u
Some key results for track http_logs are represented in the following table:
Parameters | Value |
Index Throughput | 349,332 documents per second |
Cumulative indexing time of primary shards | 124.325 |
Total Young Gen GC | 69.892 seconds |
Total time to run the tests | 70 minutes |
Median Throughput for index-append | 339,733 documents per second |
Median Throughput for term | 50.08 operations per second |
For detailed results, see Appendix A: Detailed results