Tokyo Cabinet / Memcached

gistfile1.rb

require 'memcache'
require 'memcached'
require 'rufus/tokyo'
require 'tokyocabinet'

tc = TokyoCabinet::HDB.new('tc.tch')
tffi = Rufus::Tokyo::Cabinet.new('tffi.tch')
mc = Memcached.new "localhost:11211"
mr = MemCache.new "localhost:11211"

Benchmark.bmbm do |b|
  b.report { 1000000.times { |i| tc.put i.to_s, "x" } }
  b.report { 1000000.times { |i| tffi[i.to_s] = "x" } }
  b.report { 1000000.times { |i| mc.set i.to_s, "x" } }
  b.report { 1000000.times { |i| mr.set i.to_s, "x" } }
end

Results:

Linux 2.6.30-ARCH i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz

Rehearsal ------------------------------------
TokyoC  1.030000   0.200000   1.230000 (  1.232751)
TokyoF  4.020000   0.370000   4.390000 (  4.431397)
MemC    8.640000   7.920000  16.560000 ( 25.574098)
MemPR  63.730000  12.670000  76.400000 ( 88.456076)

       user     system      total        real
TokyoC  1.110000   0.130000   1.240000 (  1.251074)
TokyoF  4.060000   0.350000   4.410000 (  4.454559)
MemC    9.260000   7.810000  17.070000 ( 27.245979)
MemPR  63.330000  12.860000  76.190000 ( 88.369831)


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Tokyo Cabinet 1.4.27
Memcached 1.2.8 (libmemcached 0.30)

TokyoC -> Tokyo Cabinet C bindings (1.26)
TokyoF -> Rufus FFI Adapter (0.1.13)
MemPR  -> Memcached pure ruby (memcache-client 1.7.4)
MemC   -> Memcached C bindings (memcached 0.15)