Problem Description
I have been very excited about MongoDb and have been testing it lately. I had a table called posts in MySQL with about 20 million records indexed only on a field called 'id'.
I wanted to compare speed with MongoDB and I ran a test which would get and print 15 records randomly from our huge databases. I ran the query about 1,000 times each for mysql and MongoDB and I am suprised that I do not notice a lot of difference in speed. Maybe MongoDB is 1.1 times faster. That's very disappointing. Is there something I am doing wrong? I know that my tests are not perfect but is MySQL on par with MongoDb when it comes to read intensive chores.
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Note:
- I have dual core + ( 2 threads ) i7 cpu and 4GB ram
- I have 20 partitions on MySQL each of 1 million records
**Sample Code Used For Testing MongoDB**
<!-- language-all: lang-php -->
<?php
function microtime_float()
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ", microtime());
return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}
$time_taken = 0;
$tries = 100;
// connect
$time_start = microtime_float();
for($i=1;$i<=$tries;$i++)
{
$m = new Mongo();
$db = $m->swalif;
$cursor = $db->posts->find(array('id' => array('$in' => get_15_random_numbers())));
foreach ($cursor as $obj)
{
//echo $obj["thread_title"] . "<br><Br>";
}
}
$time_end = microtime_float();
$time_taken = $time_taken + ($time_end - $time_start);
echo $time_taken;
function get_15_random_numbers()
{
$numbers = array();
for($i=1;$i<=15;$i++)
{
$numbers[] = mt_rand(1, 20000000) ;
}
return $numbers;
}
?>
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**Sample Code For Testing MySQL**
<?php
function microtime_float()
{
list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ", microtime());
return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec);
}
$BASE_PATH = "../src/";
include_once($BASE_PATH . "classes/forumdb.php");
$time_taken = 0;
$tries = 100;
$time_start = microtime_float();
for($i=1;$i<=$tries;$i++)
{
$db = new AQLDatabase();
$sql = "select * from posts_really_big where id in (".implode(',',get_15_random_numbers()).")";
$result = $db->executeSQL($sql);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result) )
{
//echo $row["thread_title"] . "<br><Br>";
}
}
$time_end = microtime_float();
$time_taken = $time_taken + ($time_end - $time_start);
echo $time_taken;
function get_15_random_numbers()
{
$numbers = array();
for($i=1;$i<=15;$i++)
{
$numbers[] = mt...
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