Object Store Benchmark

Berkeley DB JE and ehcache are two simple libraries for persistent storage of serialized Java objects. How good are they at handling large data sets?

Here are some benchmark results:

Berkeley DB seems to scale better, especially in terms of memory use. It is also more flexible, but requires a bit more code to be written, and is distributed under a more restrictive license (GPL). Tests were run on a Linux machine with BEA JRockit 1.5.0_03.

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store 1m objects read all objects best/worst disk space memory
ehcache 1.2beta2 6:24 min 12:33/13:45 min 2.36 GB < 1024 MB
bdb-je 2.0.90 3:32 min 5:46/7:46 min 2.02 GB < 128 MB
…with custom serializer 2:17 min 5:07/7:00 min 2.01 GB < 128 MB