Monday, May 18, 2020

MariaDB Database Engines

I wrote some simple programs to hit MariaDB and compare the performance of the different database engines.  The programs were written in Free Pascal.  These numbers are just for comparing the approximate performance of each engine.


Database Engine
Insert Key Update Non Key Update Key Delete Non Key Delete







Desktop i7-8700 with relative fast HD











Memory
15151.52 13513.51 10869.57 12195.12 12195.12
MyISAM
12195.12 8771.93 1340.48 10416.67 8196.72
Aria
359.97 319.49 320.51 364.96 375.38
InnoDB
114.31 98.60 94.75 97.81 96.28







Laptop i7-3470QM with a slow laptop HD











Memory
9090.91 5494.51 6410.26 6410.26 6944.44
MyISAM
7575.76 5747.13 963.39 7142.86 4716.98
Aria
81.10 84.70 83.88 83.22 83.84
InnoDB
18.68 17.03 16.90 15.65 15.00



The numbers listed for Insert, are inserts per second. Updates and deletes are Updates/Deletes per second. I guess I was dumbfounded at the speed MyISAM performs at. Ok, it has the low feature set.  But it's feature set is similar to Aria and it is giving performance almost as good as the Memory Engine!!!  For home use or playing around with data on a laptop, MyISAM seems like a good choice.  I know InnoDB has a lot of features and is the best choice for a production database.