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Just how many reports can you generate in a day with Valentina Server?  Paradigma Labs ran a simple benchmark test of Valentina Server working as Report Server.

Although you can utilize Valentina Server as a powerful Valentina DB based database server, you can also utilize it as a server solution for generating business reports – as html, PDF documents or images – with grids, barcodes, charts, graphs, labels and other visual elements that make up any business report. Using Valentina Server as your Report Server does not limit you to Valentina DB as a data source – you can freely use it with MySQL (including Maria DB) and PostgreSQL.

We tested generation of both big (900+ pages) and small (1-page) PDF based reports, using the current Valentina Server 5.4.2 as well as a version of Valentina Server currently in beta that maximizes multiple cores of your CPU.

The results were more than impressive.

4-12 million 1-page reports generated in a day on MacMini/i7

Read details on  Valentina WIKI.

Description of Bench

Prepare Steps:

• We have table T1 and field f1 of ULONG type: CREATE TABLE T1(f1 ULONG).
• We insert N records with values [1 .. N].

Benches:

• FORWARD – do N searches of values 1, 2, 3, … N
• REVERSE – do N searches of values N, N-1, … 1
• 2 Direction – do N searches of random values 1, N, 2, N-1, 3, N-2, … N/2

Each search returns 1 found record.

 

Bench Hardware

MacBook Pro 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7 (Early 2011),
RAM 8GB 1333 MHz,
HDD 500GB 7200 rpm, about 45-50 Mb/sec.

 

Bench using v5.3

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Count = 10 000 000 Opt1 = 1 Opt2 = 0
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ADD inCount Records = 5 450 ms = 5.45 sec
Build Index f1 = 1 877 ms

Count searches FORWARD = 30 310 ms
Count searches REVERSE   = 28 821 ms
Count searches 2 directions = 85 018 ms

 

Bench using v5.4

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Count = 10 000 000 Opt1 = 0 Opt2 = 0
No optimizations. We see pure speed of BinarySearch.
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ADD inCount Records = 4 543 ms
Build Index f1 = 1 922 ms

Count searches FORWARD = 124220 ms
Count searches REVERSE = 128918 ms
Count searches 2 directions = 134173 ms

 

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Count = 10000000 Opt1 = 1 Opt2 = 0

Enabled Opt1, i.e. Optimisation using the current page.
We see that forward and reverse sequental searches becomes x6 times better.
Random search also becomes better almost x2 times. NOT CLEAR WHY.
TODO: find explain why using debug/profile. Set breakpoint and see when it works.
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ADD inCount Records = 4 458 ms
Build Index f1 = 1 823 ms

Count searches FORWARD = 19 849 ms
Count searches REVERSE = 20 848 ms
Count searches 2 directions = 74 005 ms

 

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Count = 10000000 Opt1 = 0 Opt2 = 1

This combination have no many sense. Just for interest.
We see that times for all 3 benches becomes good,
but forward and reverse are not so fast as with Opt1.
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ADD inCount Records = 4508 ms
Build Index f1 = 1715 ms

Count searches FORWARD = 23 951 ms
Count searches REVERSE = 24 875 ms
Count searches 2 directions = 28 200 ms

 

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Count = 10000000 Opt1 = 1 Opt2 = 1

ALL optimizations ENABLED.
We see that again forward and reverse have the best times AND
RANDOM search becomes about x3 times better comparing to Opt1=1 only case.
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ADD inCount Records = 4 373 ms
Build Index f1 = 1 729 ms

Count searches FORWARD = 20 950 ms
Count searches REVERSE = 19 002 ms
Count searches 2 directions = 24 981 ms