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1,000,000 events per second with https://Quine.io

https://www.thatdot.com/blog/scaling-quine-streaming-graph-t...

Full disclosure: I work on this project.

When I first saw the benchmark result I was pleasantly surprised by the performance, you rarely see that on a single large server but it is achievable if the implementation properly does all the hard bits.

Then I saw that it required 140(!) servers to achieve that result and now I’m wondering what all that hardware is actually doing. On a per-server basis, that is very low throughput, even for graphs. Efficiency that low will make it uneconomical for most graph applications.

That’s not an optimized benchmark, just a demonstration using a real customer workload. Throughput depends on the workload but goes up to about 20,000 events per second per machine. All this is while simultaneously querying the graph and streaming out 20,000+ events per second. All that includes durable storage.

Price it out against Neptune instead and Quine is much less than 1% of the cost.

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