Philip Jacob

A microbenchmark for Whirlycache

· Philip Jacob

I was browsing around tonight and noticed a reference that Greg Luck (started the EHCache project) made on his blog to a cache benchmarking tool. Of course, my first thought was, “Gee, I wonder how Whirlycache does using their benchmark.”

A few minutes later… yes, it wins on all counts:

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java.version=1.5.0_04
java.vm.name=Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
java.vm.version=1.5.0_04-b05
java.vm.info=mixed mode, sharing
java.vm.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
os.name=Windows XP
os.version=5.1
os.arch=x86
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This test can take about 5-10 minutes. Please wait ...
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|GetPutRemoveT  |GetPutRemove   |Get            |
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cache4j 0.4       |7441           |5108           |3414           |
oscache 2.2       |14000          |16784          |4526           |
**whirlycache 1.0.1 |4206 |1643 |891 |**


ehcache 1.1       |7261           |2603           |1092           |
jcs 1.2.7.0       |5238           |3535           |1251           |
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Disclaimer: Like all benchmarks, take these numbers with a grain of salt.

By the way, Whirlycache was mentioned on TheServerSide today.