Benchmarks

This benchmark was written utilizing the data files from IMDB posted here: https://datasets.imdbws.com

The specific information used is the "Title Akas" (26,838,043 records) and "Title Basics" (8,081,413).

The initial importing of both datasets can be seen in the graph below:

While LightDB imports quickly, MongoDB scales up better for large dataset imports. For a smaller import ("Title Basics"), LightDB is still the fastest.

However, in most use cases, reading speed is the most essential factor for consideration. The following graph shows the performance of individually querying each AKA record one ID at a time: