Benchmarks for corpora system

Corpora module was tested for size overhead and latency using an experiment of creating 5M documents corpus.

Corpus size overhead

The total size of an initial raw text file was 2 393 050 900 Bytes (2.2 GB). In the raw text file there where exactly 5 157 200 documents, what give an approximate size of one document about 464 bytes.

Headers of a document have contained only the id of the document.

The total size of final corpus was 2 761 723 865 Bytes (2.57 GB), containing chunks file sized exactly 2 422 882 196 Bytes (2.26 GB) and indexes sized exactly 338 841 600 Bytes (323 MB).

This gives a total overhead of storing raw text in a corpus compared to flat file about 15.4% and the overhead of chunks with headers compared to flat file about 1.25%.

Size and overheads
Property Raw text file Corpus
Total size 2 393 050 900 B 2 761 723 865 B
Chunk size   2 422 882 196 B
Index size   338 841 600 B
Overhead total   15.4%
Overhead chunks   1.25%

Document append performance

Latency of appending every 1000 documents was measured. The test was performed on 2,8 GHz Intel Core i5, 12 GB RAM, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 with a HDD drive.

Latancy of appending 5M documents to corpus

A mean time of appending every 1000 documents was 0.53s with standard deviation about 0.12s. On presented graphs latency picks can be observed - possibly caused by DB Berkley indexes synchronizations to disk.

Histogram of appending 5M documents to corpus

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