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Know how does your Redis perform, when it can break, throughput, data transfer rate, and more with the following brilliant tools.

Redis (Remote Dictionary Service) popularity and usage have gone up in the last few years.

Not just for enterprise applications but small to medium too. Even, you can use Redis on WordPress for caching and performance is much better. If interested in learning Redis from scratch, then check out this online course.

As a developer or sysadmin for an enterprise application, you should be aware of performing benchmark to know your application performance and capacity. Redis benchmark is slightly different than the web server. The good news is, there are many free tools available so you can pick what works for you.

Ready to explore?

Redis-benchmark

Take advantage of Redis inbuilt benchmarking utility called redis-benchmark. Its included in Redis installation and can be executed by just typing redis-benchmark on UNIX. Its also available on Windows and executable is redis-benchmark.exe.

Let’s see the following examples.

Sending one million requests against 192.168.0.100

root@gf-lab:~# redis-benchmark -h 192.168.0.100 -p 6379 -n 1000000
====== PING_INLINE ======
  1000000 requests completed in 30.62 seconds
  50 parallel clients
  3 bytes payload
  keep alive: 1

61.85% <= 1 milliseconds
99.55% <= 2 milliseconds
99.93% <= 3 milliseconds
99.96% <= 4 milliseconds
99.98% <= 5 milliseconds
99.99% <= 6 milliseconds
99.99% <= 7 milliseconds
100.00% <= 8 milliseconds
100.00% <= 9 milliseconds
100.00% <= 9 milliseconds
32653.06 requests per second

1 million requests were completed in 30.62 seconds. Pay attention to the last line as well, ~32653 requests are served per second.

If you look at carefully the payload size is 3 bytes. That’s the default settings and to customize you can use -d parameter. The following test is for 100k requests with a 1mb payload.

root@gf-lab:~# redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -n 100000 -d 1000000
====== PING_INLINE ======
  100000 requests completed in 2.80 seconds
  50 parallel clients
  1000000 bytes payload
  keep alive: 1

73.19% <= 1 milliseconds
99.95% <= 2 milliseconds
100.00% <= 2 milliseconds
35676.06 requests per second

Did you notice the parallel clients? Its 50 by default and to adjust, you can use -c parameter. Below example is for 200 clients.

root@gf-lab:~# redis-benchmark -h 127.0.0.1 -p 6379 -n 100000 -d 1000000 -c 200
====== PING_INLINE ======
  100000 requests completed in 3.77 seconds
  200 parallel clients
  1000000 bytes payload
  keep alive: 1

0.00% <= 1 milliseconds
2.99% <= 2 milliseconds
18.95% <= 3 milliseconds
45.81% <= 4 milliseconds
69.65% <= 5 milliseconds
86.58% <= 6 milliseconds
95.79% <= 7 milliseconds
98.88% <= 8 milliseconds
99.78% <= 9 milliseconds
99.96% <= 10 milliseconds
100.00% <= 10 milliseconds
26532.24 requests per second

As you can see with 200 clients it took more time and processing also got slower. But, that’s expected and this helps to find the real-performance of application.

Not happy with Redis-benchmark tool? no worries, there are more as following.

Redis-cli

Just interested in the latency information?

Sure, you can use redis-cli shipped with the Redis server. You can execute with --latency parameter.

root@gf-lab:~# redis-cli --latency
min: 0, max: 1, avg: 0.16 (1056 samples

By default, latency sample is every second but you can change with -i switch if needed.

Memtier Benchmark

Memtier benchmark by Redis Labs supports Redis and Memcache, both. It is an advanced benchmarking tool with various testing options such as following.

  • Test password protected Redis
  • Run the client in a cluster mode
  • Supply number of clients, requests, threads, data size,
  • Adjust the SET and GET ratio

and a lot more…

Here is a quick test report.

root@gf-lab:~# memtier_benchmark 
[RUN #1] Preparing benchmark client...
[RUN #1] Launching threads now...
[RUN #1 100%, 133 secs]  3 threads:     1993223 ops,   15083 (avg:   14877) ops/sec, 639.97KB/sec (avg: 631.04KB/sec), 13.30 (avg: 13.44) msec latenc[RUN #1 100%, 134 secs]  0 threads:     2000000 ops,   15083 (avg:   14911) ops/sec, 639.97KB/sec (avg: 632.52KB/sec), 13.30 (avg: 13.41) msec latency

4         Threads
50        Connections per thread
10000     Requests per client


ALL STATS
=========================================================================
Type         Ops/sec     Hits/sec   Misses/sec      Latency       KB/sec 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sets         1354.30          ---          ---     13.40200       104.30 
Gets        13528.13         0.00     13528.13     13.41000       526.98 
Waits           0.00          ---          ---      0.00000          --- 
Totals      14882.43         0.00     13528.13     13.40900       631.28 


Request Latency Distribution
Type     <= msec         Percent
------------------------------------------------------------------------
SET       0.055         0.00
SET       0.063         0.00
SET       0.110         0.00
SET       0.140         0.00
SET       0.160         0.00
SET       0.170         0.00
SET       0.180         0.00
SET       0.210         0.01
SET       0.230         0.01
SET       0.280         0.01
SET       0.300         0.01
SET       0.360         0.01
SET       0.440         0.01
SET       0.460         0.01
SET       0.480         0.01
SET       0.510         0.01
SET       0.570         0.01
SET       0.590         0.01
SET       0.610         0.01
SET       0.630         0.01
SET       0.640         0.02
SET       0.670         0.02
SET       0.680         0.02
SET       0.710         0.02
SET       0.730         0.02
SET       0.740         0.02
SET       0.750         0.02
SET       0.760         0.02
SET       0.770         0.02
SET       0.780         0.02
SET       0.790         0.02
SET       0.820         0.02
SET       0.840         0.02
SET       0.850         0.03
SET       0.870         0.03
SET       0.880         0.03
SET       0.900         0.03
SET       0.930         0.03
SET       0.940         0.03
SET       0.950         0.03
SET       0.960         0.03
SET       0.970         0.03
SET       1.000         0.03
SET       1.100         0.04
SET       1.200         0.05
SET       1.300         0.06
SET       1.400         0.07
SET       1.500         0.08
SET       1.600         0.08
SET       1.700         0.09
SET       1.800         0.10
SET       1.900         0.10
SET       2.000         0.11
SET       2.100         0.12
SET       2.200         0.12
SET       2.300         0.13
SET       2.400         0.14
SET       2.500         0.16
SET       2.600         0.18
SET       2.700         0.21
SET       2.800         0.24
SET       2.900         0.25
SET       3.000         0.26
SET       3.100         0.27
SET       3.200         0.28
SET       3.300         0.28
SET       3.400         0.29
SET       3.500         0.30
SET       3.600         0.32
SET       3.700         0.35
SET       3.800         0.37
SET       3.900         0.39
SET       4.000         0.42
SET       4.100         0.45
SET       4.200         0.48
SET       4.300         0.52
SET       4.400         0.55
SET       4.500         0.59
SET       4.600         0.63
SET       4.700         0.68
SET       4.800         0.73
SET       4.900         0.77
SET       5.000         0.82
SET       5.100         0.88
SET       5.200         0.93
SET       5.300         0.99
SET       5.400         1.06
SET       5.500         1.12
SET       5.600         1.18
SET       5.700         1.25
SET       5.800         1.33
SET       5.900         1.40
SET       6.000         1.47
SET       6.100         1.56
SET       6.200         1.64
SET       6.300         1.73
SET       6.400         1.81
SET       6.500         1.92
SET       6.600         2.00
SET       6.700         2.10
SET       6.800         2.21
SET       6.900         2.32
SET       7.000         2.44
SET       7.100         2.57
SET       7.200         2.69
SET       7.300         2.80
SET       7.400         2.95
SET       7.500         3.09
SET       7.600         3.24
SET       7.700         3.37
SET       7.800         3.52
SET       7.900         3.68
SET       8.000         3.84
SET       8.100         4.02
SET       8.200         4.17
SET       8.300         4.34
SET       8.400         4.49
SET       8.500         4.65
SET       8.600         4.84
SET       8.700         5.03
SET       8.800         5.20
SET       8.900         5.38
SET       9.000         5.59
SET       9.100         5.78
SET       9.200         6.01
SET       9.300         6.22
SET       9.400         6.45
SET       9.500         6.72
SET       9.600         7.05
SET       9.700         7.35
SET       9.800         7.66
SET       9.900         7.99
SET      10.000        10.29
SET      11.000        17.47
SET      12.000        39.07
SET      13.000        62.05
SET      14.000        76.14
SET      15.000        83.95
SET      16.000        88.77
SET      17.000        91.73
SET      18.000        93.54
SET      19.000        94.82
SET      20.000        95.90
SET      21.000        96.80
SET      22.000        97.62
SET      23.000        98.26
SET      24.000        98.74
SET      25.000        99.07
SET      26.000        99.31
SET      27.000        99.49
SET      28.000        99.65
SET      29.000        99.71
SET      30.000        99.76
SET      31.000        99.82
SET      32.000        99.86
SET      33.000        99.89
SET      34.000        99.91
SET      35.000        99.93
SET      36.000        99.96
SET      37.000        99.97
SET      38.000        99.98
SET      39.000        99.99
SET      40.000        99.99
SET      41.000        99.99
SET      42.000       100.00
SET      43.000       100.00
SET      45.000       100.00
SET      46.000       100.00
---
GET       0.053         0.00
GET       0.054         0.00
GET       0.055         0.00
GET       0.067         0.00
GET       0.068         0.00
GET       0.076         0.00
GET       0.082         0.00
GET       0.086         0.00
GET       0.100         0.00
GET       0.110         0.00
GET       0.120         0.00
GET       0.130         0.00
GET       0.140         0.00
GET       0.150         0.00
GET       0.160         0.00
GET       0.170         0.00
GET       0.190         0.00
GET       0.200         0.00
GET       0.210         0.00
GET       0.220         0.00
GET       0.230         0.00
GET       0.240         0.00
GET       0.250         0.00
GET       0.270         0.00
GET       0.280         0.00
GET       0.290         0.00
GET       0.300         0.00
GET       0.320         0.00
GET       0.330         0.00
GET       0.340         0.00
GET       0.350         0.01
GET       0.360         0.01
GET       0.380         0.01
GET       0.400         0.01
GET       0.430         0.01
GET       0.440         0.01
GET       0.460         0.01
GET       0.470         0.01
GET       0.480         0.01
GET       0.500         0.01
GET       0.510         0.01
GET       0.520         0.01
GET       0.530         0.01
GET       0.540         0.01
GET       0.550         0.01
GET       0.560         0.01
GET       0.580         0.01
GET       0.590         0.01
GET       0.600         0.01
GET       0.610         0.01
GET       0.620         0.01
GET       0.630         0.01
GET       0.640         0.01
GET       0.650         0.01
GET       0.660         0.01
GET       0.670         0.01
GET       0.680         0.01
GET       0.690         0.01
GET       0.700         0.01
GET       0.710         0.01
GET       0.720         0.01
GET       0.730         0.01
GET       0.740         0.01
GET       0.750         0.01
GET       0.760         0.01
GET       0.770         0.01
GET       0.780         0.01
GET       0.790         0.01
GET       0.800         0.01
GET       0.810         0.01
GET       0.820         0.01
GET       0.830         0.01
GET       0.840         0.01
GET       0.850         0.02
GET       0.860         0.02
GET       0.870         0.02
GET       0.880         0.02
GET       0.890         0.02
GET       0.900         0.02
GET       0.910         0.02
GET       0.920         0.02
GET       0.930         0.02
GET       0.940         0.02
GET       0.950         0.02
GET       0.960         0.02
GET       0.970         0.02
GET       0.980         0.02
GET       0.990         0.02
GET       1.000         0.02
GET       1.100         0.02
GET       1.200         0.03
GET       1.300         0.04
GET       1.400         0.04
GET       1.500         0.05
GET       1.600         0.05
GET       1.700         0.05
GET       1.800         0.06
GET       1.900         0.06
GET       2.000         0.07
GET       2.100         0.07
GET       2.200         0.08
GET       2.300         0.09
GET       2.400         0.09
GET       2.500         0.11
GET       2.600         0.13
GET       2.700         0.16
GET       2.800         0.18
GET       2.900         0.20
GET       3.000         0.20
GET       3.100         0.21
GET       3.200         0.21
GET       3.300         0.22
GET       3.400         0.24
GET       3.500         0.25
GET       3.600         0.26
GET       3.700         0.28
GET       3.800         0.31
GET       3.900         0.33
GET       4.000         0.36
GET       4.100         0.39
GET       4.200         0.43
GET       4.300         0.46
GET       4.400         0.49
GET       4.500         0.53
GET       4.600         0.57
GET       4.700         0.61
GET       4.800         0.65
GET       4.900         0.69
GET       5.000         0.73
GET       5.100         0.78
GET       5.200         0.83
GET       5.300         0.89
GET       5.400         0.95
GET       5.500         1.01
GET       5.600         1.08
GET       5.700         1.14
GET       5.800         1.21
GET       5.900         1.30
GET       6.000         1.37
GET       6.100         1.45
GET       6.200         1.54
GET       6.300         1.62
GET       6.400         1.71
GET       6.500         1.80
GET       6.600         1.90
GET       6.700         1.99
GET       6.800         2.10
GET       6.900         2.21
GET       7.000         2.33
GET       7.100         2.45
GET       7.200         2.56
GET       7.300         2.67
GET       7.400         2.80
GET       7.500         2.94
GET       7.600         3.08
GET       7.700         3.22
GET       7.800         3.36
GET       7.900         3.51
GET       8.000         3.66
GET       8.100         3.83
GET       8.200         3.99
GET       8.300         4.17
GET       8.400         4.32
GET       8.500         4.49
GET       8.600         4.67
GET       8.700         4.84
GET       8.800         5.00
GET       8.900         5.18
GET       9.000         5.37
GET       9.100         5.58
GET       9.200         5.78
GET       9.300         6.00
GET       9.400         6.25
GET       9.500         6.53
GET       9.600         6.82
GET       9.700         7.11
GET       9.800         7.41
GET       9.900         7.77
GET      10.000        10.13
GET      11.000        17.36
GET      12.000        39.32
GET      13.000        62.21
GET      14.000        76.31
GET      15.000        83.98
GET      16.000        88.82
GET      17.000        91.71
GET      18.000        93.50
GET      19.000        94.77
GET      20.000        95.84
GET      21.000        96.76
GET      22.000        97.58
GET      23.000        98.22
GET      24.000        98.73
GET      25.000        99.07
GET      26.000        99.32
GET      27.000        99.51
GET      28.000        99.66
GET      29.000        99.73
GET      30.000        99.78
GET      31.000        99.83
GET      32.000        99.87
GET      33.000        99.90
GET      34.000        99.92
GET      35.000        99.94
GET      36.000        99.96
GET      37.000        99.97
GET      38.000        99.98
GET      39.000        99.99
GET      40.000        99.99
GET      41.000        99.99
GET      42.000       100.00
GET      43.000       100.00
GET      44.000       100.00
GET      45.000       100.00
GET      46.000       100.00
GET      47.000       100.00
---
root@gf-lab:~#

I doubt if you can install this on Windows but for sure on UNIX distro like RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu/Debian, MacOS, etc. It is free to give a try to experience.

RDBTools

Available as CLI and GUI, both. RDBTools is a cross-platform tool and aims to help in improving application performance. Talking about specific to benchmarking, it got memory analysis feature which allows to investigate memory usage, key analysis, identify memory leaks and recommend to lower the memory usage.

You can view real-time performance and perform all sorts of administrative tasks through the GUI.

Conclusion

I hope the above tools help you to perform Redis benchmarking so you know the application performance.

  • Chandan Kumar
    Author
    As the founder of Geekflare, I’ve helped millions to excel in the digital realm. Passionate about technology, I’m on a mission to explore the world and amplify growth for professionals and businesses alike.
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