node_redis-vs-ioredis

There are two popular redis client for Node: node_redis and ioredis.

This repository is a simple performance benchmark for them. PR is welcomed to makes this not tooooo simple >.<

About this benchmark

First of all, I must say ioredis is a real full-featured redis client right now. This is a really big PRO.

I have no malice for both libraries. Just wanna do a performance benchmark.

Run

1. Use git clone git@github.com:poppinlp/node_redis-vs-ioredis.git to clone this repo to local.
2. Use yarn or npm i to install dependencies.
3. Use redis-server to start redis server local with no password. (or docker compose up -d)
4. Use yarn benchmark or npm run benchmark to start benchmark.

Result

I do this benchmark on my laptop with:

• OS: macOS 10.14.6
• Processor: 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
• Memory: 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3

And the result is like:

Operation	node_redis(ms)	node_redis with multi(ms)	node_redis with batch(ms)
set	975.642	90.095	62.411
get	1067.484	83.753	47.990
hmset	937.843	122.092	95.343
hgetall	1016.114	81.270	48.576
incr	827.890	47.513	33.893
keys	1045.368	245.800	202.975

Operation	ioredis(ms)	ioredis with multi(ms)	ioredis with pipeline(ms)
set	972.004	132.737	95.534
get	964.135	117.334	103.084
hmset	1006.690	162.359	152.416
hgetall	1091.209	124.997	113.609
incr	910.978	127.755	81.202
keys	975.638	302.184	233.408

It will also output an average for both ioredis and node_redis as well as a "winner".

Command line arguments

This benchmarking tool accepts following CLI arguments:

• --length [int] The length of the benchmark (default: 20000)
• --datafile [filepath] A custom JSON file to use for testing. Has to have a string, number and hash property which are the only ones processed.

PR is welcomed to makes this not tooooo simple >.<