Performance Benchmarking of Redpanda an event streaming platform using SBK and Open Messaging Frameworks

Abstract

Redpanda is an event-driven, publish/subscribe based messaging system. The two main performance benchmarking frameworks, Storage Benchmark Kit (SBK) and open messaging benchmark are used here to test the performance benchmarking of redpanda’s event processing system. SBK is a software framework for measuring any storage device or client's performance benchmarking and open messaging benchmark framework which supports benchmarking for a wide variety of messaging platforms. Well formulated fine tuning system for benchmarks is still an open research problem. In this paper, SBK and open messaging frameworks have been experimentally compared with respect to their messaging capabilities (Message sending and receiving throughput) on redpanda’s event processing system. A number of experimental test scenarios have been conducted on data streaming workload, the performance evaluation results revealed that SBK gives maximum throughput performance compared to open messaging benchmark.