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For a smooth user experience, you need a system that provides low latency—that is, a system that responds quickly to your users’ demands. On our read-heavy workload, the SAS-based configuration cut response times by just over 50 percent compared to the SATA-based configuration. NVMe drives lowered response times even further, enabling the configuration to respond in 57 percent less time than the configuration with enterprise SATA SSDs.
According to Yahoo!, “the goal of the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) project is to develop a framework and common set of workloads for evaluating the performance of different ‘key-value’ and ‘cloud’ serving stores.”11 The benchmark supports MongoDB in addition to Apache HBase® and Apache Cassandra®, both NoSQL databases capable of handling large datasets. Administrators can benchmark their preferred database by writing a new interface layer.
To learn more about YCSB, visit https://research.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-cloud-serving-benchmark.
11 Yahoo, “Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark,” accessed October 4, 2019,
https://research.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-cloud-serving-benchmark.