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| Comment: | Update the speed comparison page. (CVS 840) |
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| User & Date: | drh 2003-01-18 22:01:07 |
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| 03:59 | Update comments. No changes to code. (CVS 841) check-in: f6a87068 user: drh tags: trunk | |
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| 22:01 | Update the speed comparison page. (CVS 840) check-in: 424cb2ed user: drh tags: trunk | |
| 20:11 | Fix datatype reporting and collating sequence selection so that it works correctly on views and with the UNION, EXCEPT, and INTERCEPT operators. (CVS 839) check-in: 71cc292d user: drh tags: trunk | |
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# Run this TCL script to generate HTML for the index.html file.
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set rcsid {$Id: index.tcl,v 1.71 2003/01/18 20:11:07 drh Exp $}
puts {<html>
<head><title>SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine</title></head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<h1 align=center>SQLite<br>An Embeddable SQL Database Engine</h1>
<p align=center>}
puts "This page was last modified on [lrange $rcsid 3 4] UTC<br>"
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<li>A complete database (with multiple tables and indices) is
stored in a single disk file.</li>
<li>Atomic commit and rollback protect data integrity.</li>
<li>Database files can be freely shared between machines with
different byte orders.</li>
<li>Supports databases up to 2 terabytes (2^41 bytes) in size.</li>
<li>Small memory footprint: less than 25K lines of C code.</li>
<li><a href="speed.html">Four times faster</a> than PostgreSQL.
Twice as fast as SQLite 1.0.</li>
<li>Very simple
<a href="c_interface.html">C/C++ interface</a> requires the use of only
three functions and one opaque structure.</li>
<li><a href="tclsqlite.html">TCL bindings</a> included.
Bindings for many other languages available separately.</li>
<li>Simple, well-commented source code.</li>
<li>Automated test suite provides near 100% code coverage.</li>
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#
# Run this TCL script to generate HTML for the index.html file.
#
set rcsid {$Id: index.tcl,v 1.72 2003/01/18 22:01:07 drh Exp $}
puts {<html>
<head><title>SQLite: An Embeddable SQL Database Engine</title></head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<h1 align=center>SQLite<br>An Embeddable SQL Database Engine</h1>
<p align=center>}
puts "This page was last modified on [lrange $rcsid 3 4] UTC<br>"
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<li>A complete database (with multiple tables and indices) is
stored in a single disk file.</li>
<li>Atomic commit and rollback protect data integrity.</li>
<li>Database files can be freely shared between machines with
different byte orders.</li>
<li>Supports databases up to 2 terabytes (2^41 bytes) in size.</li>
<li>Small memory footprint: less than 25K lines of C code.</li>
<li><a href="speed.html">10x faster</a> than PostgreSQL and
<a href="speed.html">2x faster</a> than MySQL for many common
operations.</li>
<li>Very simple
<a href="c_interface.html">C/C++ interface</a> requires the use of only
three functions and one opaque structure.</li>
<li><a href="tclsqlite.html">TCL bindings</a> included.
Bindings for many other languages available separately.</li>
<li>Simple, well-commented source code.</li>
<li>Automated test suite provides near 100% code coverage.</li>
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#
# Run this Tcl script to generate the speed.html file.
#
set rcsid {$Id: speed.tcl,v 1.8 2002/08/24 18:24:58 drh Exp $ }
puts {<html>
<head>
<title>Database Speed Comparison: SQLite versus PostgreSQL</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<h1 align=center>
................................................................................
(This page was last modified on [lrange $rcsid 3 4] UTC)
</p>"
puts {
<h2>Executive Summary</h2>
<p>A series of tests were run to measure the relative performance of
SQLite 2.7.0, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, and MySQL 3.23.41.
The following are general
conclusions drawn from these experiments:
</p>
<ul>
<li><p>
SQLite 2.7.0 is significantly faster than PostgreSQL 7.1.3
for most common operations.
</p></li>
<li><p>
The speed of SQLite 2.7.0 is similar to MySQL 3.23.41.
This is true in spite of the
fact that SQLite contains full transaction support whereas the
version of MySQL tested did not.
</p></li>
<li><p>
These tests did not attempt to measure multi-user performance or
optimization of complex queries involving multiple joins and subqueries.
</ul>
<h2>Test Environment</h2>
<p>
The platform used for these tests is a 1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB or memory
and an IDE disk drive. The operating system is RedHat Linux 7.2 with
................................................................................
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(2,75560,'seventy five thousand five hundred sixty');<br>
<i>... 995 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(998,66289,'sixty six thousand two hundred eighty nine');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(999,24322,'twenty four thousand three hundred twenty two');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1000,94142,'ninety four thousand one hundred forty two');<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 3.613</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.086</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 8.672</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.286</td></tr>
</table>
<p>SQLite must close and reopen the database file, and thus invalidate
its cache, for each SQL statement. In spite of this, the asynchronous
version of SQLite is still nearly as fast as MySQL. Notice how much slower
the synchronous version is, however. This is due to the necessity of
calling <b>fsync()</b> after each SQL statement.</p>
<h2>Test 2: 25000 INSERTs in a transaction</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
CREATE TABLE t2(a INTEGER, b INTEGER, c VARCHAR(100));<br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(1,298361,'two hundred ninety eight thousand three hundred sixty one');<br>
<i>... 24997 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(24999,447847,'four hundred forty seven thousand eight hundred forty seven');<br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(25000,473330,'four hundred seventy three thousand three hundred thirty');<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 4.430</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 2.025</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 0.885</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.753</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
When all the INSERTs are put in a transaction, SQLite no longer has to
close and reopen the database between each statement. It also does not
have to do any fsync()s until the very end. When unshackled in
this way, SQLite is much faster than either PostgreSQL and MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 3: 100 SELECTs without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=0 AND b<1000;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=100 AND b<1100;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=200 AND b<1200;<br>
<i>... 94 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=9700 AND b<10700;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=9800 AND b<10800;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=9900 AND b<10900;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 3.274</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 2.624</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 5.585</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 5.443</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test does 100 queries on a 25000 entry table without an index,
thus requiring a full table scan. SQLite is about half the speed of
PostgreSQL and MySQL. This is because SQLite stores all data as strings
and must therefore call <b>strtod()</b> 5 million times in the
course of evaluating the WHERE clauses. Both PostgreSQL and MySQL
store data as binary values where appropriate and can forego
this conversion effort.
</p>
<h2>Test 4: 100 SELECTs on a string comparison</h2>
<blockquote>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%one%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%two%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%three%';<br>
<i>... 94 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%ninety eight%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%ninety nine%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%one hundred%';<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 14.511</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 4.616</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 5.966</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 5.918</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This set of 100 queries uses string comparisons instead of
numerical comparisions. As a result, the speed of SQLite is
compariable to or better then PostgreSQL and MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 5: Creating an index</h2>
<blockquote>
CREATE INDEX i2a ON t2(a);<br>CREATE INDEX i2b ON t2(b);
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.483</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.304</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 0.779</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.637</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
SQLite is slower at creating new indices. But since creating
new indices is an uncommon operation, this is not seen as a
problem.
</p>
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SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=200 AND b<300;<br>
<i>... 4994 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499700 AND b<499800;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499800 AND b<499900;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499900 AND b<500000;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 4.939</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.335</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 1.165</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.144</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test runs a set of 5000 queries that are similar in form to
those in test 3. But now instead of being half as fast, SQLite
is faster than both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 7: 1000 UPDATEs without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=0 AND a<10;<br>
................................................................................
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=10 AND a<20;<br>
<i>... 996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=9980 AND a<9990;<br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=9990 AND a<10000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.536</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 7.281</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 0.817</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.726</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Here is a case where MySQL is over 10 times slower than SQLite.
The reason for this is unclear.
</p>
<h2>Test 8: 25000 UPDATEs with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=271822 WHERE a=1;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=28304 WHERE a=2;<br>
<i>... 24996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=442549 WHERE a=24999;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=423958 WHERE a=25000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 29.318</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 7.514</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 7.681</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 7.852</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
In this case MySQL is slightly faster than SQLite, though not by much.
The difference is believed to have to do with the fact SQLite
handles the integers as strings instead of binary numbers.
</p>
<h2>Test 9: 25000 text UPDATEs with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='four hundred sixty eight thousand twenty six' WHERE a=1;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='one hundred twenty one thousand nine hundred twenty eight' WHERE a=2;<br>
<i>... 24996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='thirty five thousand sixty five' WHERE a=24999;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='three hundred forty seven thousand three hundred ninety three' WHERE a=25000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 50.020</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 5.841</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 5.346</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 5.393</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
When updating a text field instead of an integer field,
SQLite is slightly faster than MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 10: INSERTs from a SELECT</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>INSERT INTO t1 SELECT * FROM t2;<br>INSERT INTO t2 SELECT * FROM t1;<br>COMMIT;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 57.834</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.335</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 5.073</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 2.085</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The poor performance of PostgreSQL in this case appears to be due to its
synchronous behavior. The CPU was mostly idle the test run. Presumably,
PostgreSQL was spending most of its time waiting on disk I/O to complete.
</p>
<p>
SQLite is slower than MySQL because it creates a temporary table to store
the result of the query, then does an insert from the temporary table.
A future enhancement that moves data directly from teh query into the
insert table should double the speed of SQLite.
</p>
<h2>Test 11: DELETE without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
DELETE FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%fifty%';
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.733</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.768</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 5.418</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.668</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Test 12: DELETE with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
DELETE FROM t2 WHERE a>10 AND a<20000;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.867</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 2.068</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 1.453</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.745</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Test 13: A big INSERT after a big DELETE</h2>
<blockquote>
INSERT INTO t2 SELECT * FROM t1;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 66.099</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.663</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 4.029</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.729</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Earlier versions of SQLite would show decreasing performance after a
sequence DELETEs followed by new INSERTs. As this test shows, the
problem has now been resolved.
</p>
<h2>Test 14: A big DELETE followed by many small INSERTs</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
DELETE FROM t1;<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1,29676,'twenty nine thousand six hundred seventy six');<br>
<i>... 2997 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(2999,37835,'thirty seven thousand eight hundred thirty five');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(3000,97817,'ninety seven thousand eight hundred seventeen');<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.168</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.866</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 0.288</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.155</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Test 15: DROP TABLE</h2>
<blockquote>
DROP TABLE t1;<br>DROP TABLE t2;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.100</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.012</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0:</td><td align="right"> 0.572</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.0 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.168</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
SQLite is slower than the other databases when it comes to dropping tables.
This is not seen as a big problem, however, since DROP TABLE is seldom
used in speed-critical situations.
</p>
}
puts {
<p><hr /></p>
<p><a href="index.html"><img src="/goback.jpg" border=0 />
Back to the SQLite Home Page</a>
</p>
</body></html>}
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# Run this Tcl script to generate the speed.html file.
#
set rcsid {$Id: speed.tcl,v 1.9 2003/01/18 22:01:07 drh Exp $ }
puts {<html>
<head>
<title>Database Speed Comparison: SQLite versus PostgreSQL</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<h1 align=center>
................................................................................
(This page was last modified on [lrange $rcsid 3 4] UTC)
</p>"
puts {
<h2>Executive Summary</h2>
<p>A series of tests were run to measure the relative performance of
SQLite 2.7.6, PostgreSQL 7.1.3, and MySQL 3.23.41.
The following are general
conclusions drawn from these experiments:
</p>
<ul>
<li><p>
SQLite 2.7.6 is significantly faster (sometimes as much as 10 or
20 times faster) than PostgreSQL 7.1.3
for most common operations.
</p></li>
<li><p>
SQLite 2.7.6 is usually faster than MySQL 3.23.41 (sometimes
more than twice as fast) though for some operations such as
full table scans, it can be as much as 30% slower.
</p></li>
<li><p>
SQLite does not execute CREATE INDEX or DROP TABLE as fast as
the other databases. But this as not seen is a problem because
those are infrequent operations.
</p></li>
</ul>
<p>
The results presented here come with the following caveats:
</p>
<ul>
<li><p>
These tests did not attempt to measure multi-user performance or
optimization of complex queries involving multiple joins and subqueries.
</p></li>
<li><p>
These tests are on a relatively small (approximately 10 megabyte) database.
They do not measure how well the database engines scale to larger problems.
</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>Test Environment</h2>
<p>
The platform used for these tests is a 1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB or memory
and an IDE disk drive. The operating system is RedHat Linux 7.2 with
................................................................................
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(2,75560,'seventy five thousand five hundred sixty');<br>
<i>... 995 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(998,66289,'sixty six thousand two hundred eighty nine');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(999,24322,'twenty four thousand three hundred twenty two');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1000,94142,'ninety four thousand one hundred forty two');<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 3.658</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.109</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 7.177</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.266</td></tr>
</table>
<p>SQLite must close and reopen the database file, and thus invalidate
its cache, for each SQL statement. In spite of this, the asynchronous
version of SQLite is still nearly as fast as MySQL. Notice how much slower
the synchronous version is, however. This is due to the necessity of
calling <b>fsync()</b> after each SQL statement.</p>
<h2>Test 2: 25000 INSERTs in a transaction</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
CREATE TABLE t2(a INTEGER, b INTEGER, c VARCHAR(100));<br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(1,298361,'two hundred ninety eight thousand three hundred sixty one');<br>
<i>... 24997 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(24999,447847,'four hundred forty seven thousand eight hundred forty seven');<br>
INSERT INTO t2 VALUES(25000,473330,'four hundred seventy three thousand three hundred thirty');<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 5.058</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 2.271</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 0.912</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.798</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
When all the INSERTs are put in a transaction, SQLite no longer has to
close and reopen the database between each statement. It also does not
have to do any fsync()s until the very end. When unshackled in
this way, SQLite is much faster than either PostgreSQL and MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 3: 100 SELECTs without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=0 AND b<1000;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=100 AND b<1100;<br>
<i>... 96 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=9800 AND b<10800;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=9900 AND b<10900;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 3.657</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 3.368</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 4.386</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 4.314</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test does 100 queries on a 25000 entry table without an index,
thus requiring a full table scan. SQLite is about 20% or 30% slower
than PostgreSQL and MySQL. The reason for this is believed to be
because SQLite stores all data as strings
and must therefore do 5 million string-to-number conversions in the
course of evaluating the WHERE clauses. Both PostgreSQL and MySQL
store data as binary values where appropriate and can forego
this conversion effort.
</p>
<h2>Test 4: 100 SELECTs on a string comparison</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%one%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%two%';<br>
<i>... 96 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%ninety nine%';<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%one hundred%';<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 15.967</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 5.088</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 5.419</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 5.367</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test still does 100 full table scans but it uses
uses string comparisons instead of numerical comparisions.
SQLite is almost three times faster than PostgreSQL here. But it is
still 15% slower than MySQL. MySQL appears to be very good
at doing full table scans.
</p>
<h2>Test 5: Creating an index</h2>
<blockquote>
CREATE INDEX i2a ON t2(a);<br>CREATE INDEX i2b ON t2(b);
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.431</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.340</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 0.814</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.675</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
SQLite is slower at creating new indices. But since creating
new indices is an uncommon operation, this is not seen as a
problem.
</p>
................................................................................
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=200 AND b<300;<br>
<i>... 4994 lines omitted</i><br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499700 AND b<499800;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499800 AND b<499900;<br>
SELECT count(*), avg(b) FROM t2 WHERE b>=499900 AND b<500000;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 5.369</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.489</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 1.423</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.358</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test runs a set of 5000 queries that are similar in form to
those in test 3. But now instead of being slower, SQLite
is faster than both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 7: 1000 UPDATEs without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=0 AND a<10;<br>
................................................................................
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=10 AND a<20;<br>
<i>... 996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=9980 AND a<9990;<br>
UPDATE t1 SET b=b*2 WHERE a>=9990 AND a<10000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.740</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 8.162</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 0.635</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.608</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
For this particular UPDATE test, MySQL is consistently
five or ten times
slower than PostgreSQL and SQLite. I do not know why. MySQL is
normally a very fast engine. Perhaps this problem has been addressed
in later versions of MySQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 8: 25000 UPDATEs with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=271822 WHERE a=1;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=28304 WHERE a=2;<br>
<i>... 24996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=442549 WHERE a=24999;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET b=423958 WHERE a=25000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 32.118</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 8.132</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 4.109</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 3.712</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
As recently as version 2.7.0, SQLite ran at about the same speed as
MySQL on this test. But recent optimizations to SQLite have doubled
speed of UPDATEs.
</p>
<h2>Test 9: 25000 text UPDATEs with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='four hundred sixty eight thousand twenty six' WHERE a=1;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='one hundred twenty one thousand nine hundred twenty eight' WHERE a=2;<br>
<i>... 24996 lines omitted</i><br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='thirty five thousand sixty five' WHERE a=24999;<br>
UPDATE t2 SET c='three hundred forty seven thousand three hundred ninety three' WHERE a=25000;<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 55.309</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 6.585</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 2.474</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.800</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Here again, version 2.7.0 of SQLite used to run at about the same speed
as MySQL. But now version 2.7.6 is over two times faster than MySQL and
over twenty times faster than PostgreSQL.
</p>
<h2>Test 10: INSERTs from a SELECT</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>INSERT INTO t1 SELECT b,a,c FROM t2;<br>INSERT INTO t2 SELECT b,a,c FROM t1;<br>COMMIT;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 58.956</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.465</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 2.926</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.664</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The poor performance of PostgreSQL in this case appears to be due to its
synchronous behavior. The CPU was mostly idle the test run. Presumably,
PostgreSQL was spending most of its time waiting on disk I/O to complete.
I'm not sure why SQLite performs poorly here. It use to be quicker at this
test, but the same enhancements that sped up the UPDATE logic seem to have
slowed down this test.
</p>
<h2>Test 11: DELETE without an index</h2>
<blockquote>
DELETE FROM t2 WHERE c LIKE '%fifty%';
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.365</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.849</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 4.005</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.631</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
The synchronous version of SQLite is the slowest of the group in this test,
but the asynchronous version is the fastest. SQLite used about the same
amount of CPU time in both versions; the difference is the extra time needed
to write information to the disk surface.
</p>
<h2>Test 12: DELETE with an index</h2>
<blockquote>
DELETE FROM t2 WHERE a>10 AND a<20000;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.340</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 2.167</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 2.344</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.858</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
This test is significant because it is one of the few where
PostgreSQL is faster than MySQL. The asynchronous SQLite is,
however, faster then both the other two.
</p>
</table>
<h2>Test 13: A big INSERT after a big DELETE</h2>
<blockquote>
INSERT INTO t2 SELECT * FROM t1;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 12.672</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.837</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 3.076</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 1.570</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
Some older versions of SQLite would show decreasing performance after a
sequence DELETEs followed by new INSERTs. As this test shows, the
problem has now been resolved.
</p>
<h2>Test 14: A big DELETE followed by many small INSERTs</h2>
<blockquote>
BEGIN;<br>
DELETE FROM t1;<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(1,29676,'twenty nine thousand six hundred seventy six');<br>
<i>... 11997 lines omitted</i><br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(11999,71818,'seventy one thousand eight hundred eighteen');<br>
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES(12000,58579,'fifty eight thousand five hundred seventy nine');<br>
COMMIT;<br>
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 4.165</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 1.733</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 0.652</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.465</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
SQLite is very good at doing INSERTs within a transaction, which probably
explains why it is so much faster than the other databases at this test.
</p>
<h2>Test 15: DROP TABLE</h2>
<blockquote>
DROP TABLE t1;<br>DROP TABLE t2;
</blockquote><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td>PostgreSQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.133</td></tr>
<tr><td>MySQL:</td><td align="right"> 0.014</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6:</td><td align="right"> 0.873</td></tr>
<tr><td>SQLite 2.7.6 (nosync):</td><td align="right"> 0.224</td></tr>
</table>
<p>
SQLite is slower than the other databases when it comes to dropping tables.
This probably is because when SQLite drops a table, it has to go through and
erase the records in the database file that deal with that table. MySQL and
PostgreSQL, on the other hand, use separate files to represent each table
so they can drop a table simply by deleting a file, which is much faster.
</p>
<p>
On the other hand, dropping tables is not a very common operation
so if SQLite takes a little longer, that is not seen as a big problem.
</p>
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