Performance Comparison between Java Memcached Client

There are several memcached clients written in java programming language, including spymemcached,  Java-MemCached , Xmemcached and memcached-client-forjava(A optimiezed Java-MemCached) etc.
The performance numbers of the 4 open source memcached clients and schooner memcached client are presented here to help you make choice.

Test Scenario

Single memcached server runs on a linux machine.

A java client connect to memcached servers,then start numbers of threads to repeat themself to store and retrive data from memcachd concurrently,write 50% and read 50%,with no miss rate.

Test Environment

• Software
  • 1 Memcached Servers
    • Version is 1.4.3, default install configuration.
    • Start with option "-p 12000 -m 2048"
  • Java Client
    • JVM Version: Sun JDK 1.6.0_10 x86_64
    • Both memcached text protocol and binary protocol is covered(if supported).
    • Schoonermemcached 1.0.2, max connection number eq thread number. (binary/udp protocol supported)
    • xmemcached 1.2.0 stable, connection pool size eq thread number. (binary protocol supported)
    • Spymemcached 2.5rc1,default configuration. (binary protocol supported)
    • Whalin java client 2.0.1, max connection number eq thread number.
    • Asfmemcached 2.5.2, max connection number eq thread number.
    • JVM args: -server -Xmx1024m
    • Xmemcached and Spymemcached are asynchronized implementations.So they have to set operation timeout,both are set to 3 seconds.
• Hardware
  • Server
    • CPU: 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz
    • O/S: 2.6.28.9 x86_64 GNU/Linux (CentOS release 5.2)
    • RAM: 50 GiB
    • NIC: 10G QLogic network
  • Client (Hostname: Serpent)
    • CPU: 8 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz
    • O/S: 2.6.26.5 x86_64 GNU/Linux (CentOS release 5.2)
    • RAM: 16 GiB
    • NIC: 10G QLogic network

Test Result

Client and Servers on Different Machines

Part1 Compare by threads number

Part2 Compare by value size