Cloud Computing: New report shows MongoDB to be leader of the NoSQL database pack

April 1, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CloudTech.  Author: James Bourne.

A report from United Software Associates (USAIN) has found MongoDB to be top of the pile of NoSQL database providers in benchmark testing.  The research tested three leading products – Cassandra, CouchBase and MongoDB – through Yahoo!’s cloud standard benchmark, YCSB. USAIN wanted to assess the durability of each, going on the theory that most applications should prioritise durability over performance, not accepting data loss. The databases were put through the ringer on three types of performance metric; throughput optimised, durability optimised, and balanced.

In workload A of 50% read and 50% update with throughput optimised, under the YCSB benchmark MongoDB hit 160,719 operations per second, ahead of Cassandra (134,839) and Couchbase (106,638). With workload B’s 95% read and 5% update, MongoDB again came out on top with 196,498, ahead of Couchbase (187,798) and Cassandra (144,455)…


However with durability optimised, MongoDB soared ahead on workload A, with 31,864 ops a second compared with Cassandra (6,289) and Couchbase (1,236). It was a similar story on workload B, with MongoDB (114,455) ahead of Cassandra (54,864) and Couchbase (18,201)…

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