TSM-Bench is a new benchmark that compares seven Time Series Database Systems (TSDBs) using a mixed set of workloads. It can be easily extended with new systems, queries, datasets, and workloads. The benchmark introduces a novel data generation method that augments seed real-world time series datasets, enabling realistic and scalable benchmarking. Technical details can be found in the paper TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications, PVLDB'23.
- List of benchmarked systems: ClickHouse, Druid, eXtremeDB*, InfluxDB, MonetDB, QuestDB, TimescaleDB.
- The benchmark evaluates bulk-loading, storage performance, offline/online query performance, and the impact of time series features on compression.
- We use two datasets for the evaluation: D-LONG [d1] and D-MULTI [d2]. The evaluated datasets can be found here.
- *Note: Due to license restrictions, we can only share the evaluation version of extremeDB. The results between the benchmarked and the public version might diverge.
Prerequisites | Installation | Dataset Loading | Experiments | Benchmark Extension | Technical Report | Data Generation | Contributors
- Ubuntu 22 (including Ubuntu derivatives, e.g., Xubuntu); 128 GB RAM
- Clone this repository (this can take a couple of minutes as it uploads one of the datasets)
- Install the dependencies and activate the created virtual environment
cd systems/
sh install_dep.sh
source TSMvenv/bin/activate- Install all the systems (takes ~15mins)
sh install_all_sys.sh- Download and decompress Dataset 1 (takes ~ 3 mins)
cd ../datasets
sh build.sh d1
- Load Dataset 1 into all the systems (takes ~ 2 hours)
sh load_all.sh d1- In case you want to load Dataset 1 into a specific system:
cd systems/{system}
sh load.sh d1- Note: To build and load the larger dataset d2, replace
d1withd2.
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Activate the virtual environment, if not already done:
source systems/TSMvenv/bin/activate -
The offline queries for all systems can be executed from the root folder using:
python3 tsm_eval.py [args]
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Mandatory Arguments: [args] should be replaced with the name of the system, query, and dataset:
| --system | --queries | --datasets |
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| clickhouse | q1 (selection) | d1 |
| druid | q2 (filtering) | d2 |
| extremedb* | q3 (aggregation) | |
| influx | q4 (downsampling) | |
| monetdb | q5 (upsampling) | |
| questdb | q6 (average) | |
| timescaledb | q7 (correlation) | |
| all | all | all |
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Optional Arguments: The following arguments allow to add variation in the number of sensors and dynamic changes in predicate ranges:
--nb_st: Number of queried stations when varying other dimensions (Default = 1)--nb_sr: Number of queried sensors when varying other dimensions (Default = 3)--n_st: Number of stations in the dataset (Default = 10)--n_s: Number of sensors in the dataset (Default = 100)--nb_sr: Number of queried sensors when varying other dimensions (Default = 3)--range: Query range value when varying other dimensions (Default = 1)--rangeUnit: Query range unit when varying other dimensions (Default = day)--timeout: Maximum query time after five runs (s) (Default = 20)--min_ts: Minimum query timestamp (Default = "2019-04-01T00:00:00")--max_ts: Maximum query timestamp (Default = "2019-04-30T00:00:00")
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Results: All the runtimes and plots will be added to the
resultsfolder.-
The runtime results of the systems for a given dataset and query will be added to:
results/offline/{dataset}/{query}/runtime/. The runtime plots will be added to the folderresults/offline/{dataset}/{query}/plots/. -
All the queries return the runtimes by varying the number of stations (nb_st), number of sensors (nb_sr), and the range.
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Examples:
- Run query q1 on extremedb for Dataset 1 using default parameters (nb_st=1, nb_sr=3, range=1 day)
python3 tsm_eval.py --systems extremedb --queries q1 --datasets d1- Run q2 and q3 on extremedb and timescaledb for Dataset 1
python3 tsm_eval.py --systems extremedb timescaledb --queries q2 q3 --datasets d1- Run all the offline workload on all systems for Dataset 1 (takes ~ 3 hours)
python3 tsm_eval.py --systems all --queries all --datasets d1 This workload requires two servers: the first serves as a host machine to deploy the systems (similar to above), and the second runs as a client to generate writes and queries.
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Clone this repo
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Install dependencies:
cd systems/ sh install_dep.sh source TSMvenv/bin/activate
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Install the system libraries
sh install_client_lib.sh
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Run the system on the host side
cd systems/{system} sh launch.sh -
If the virtual environment is not activated from the root folder using:
source systems/TSMvenv/bin/activate -
Execute the online query on the client side using the --host flag (see examples below).
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Stop the system on the host server
sh stop.sh
Optional Arguments:
--host: remote host machine name (Default = "localhost")--batch_size: Number data points to be inserted each second (if possible) (Default = 10000)
Examples:
- Run query q1 in an online manner on clickhouse.
python3 tsm_eval_online.py --system clickhouse --queries q1 --host "host_address" --batch_size 10000- Run all queries online on influx using different batch sizes.
python3 tsm_eval_online.py --system influx --queries all --host "host_address" --batch_size 10000 20000 1000000- Run all queries online on questdb using one thread.
python3 tsm_eval_online.py --system questdb --queries all --host "host_address" Notes:
- We launch each system separately on the host machine and execute the online query on the client machine using the --host flag.
- The maximal batch_size depends on your architecture and the selected TSDB.
- Druid supports ingestion and queries concurrently, while QuestDB does not support multithreading.
- If you stop the program before its termination or shut down the system, the database might not be set into its initial state properly; you need to reload the dataset in the host machine:
cd systems/{system} sh load.sh
Results:
- The runtime results of the systems will be added to:
results/online/{dataset}/{query}/runtime/. - The runtime plots will be added to the folder
results/online/{dataset}/{query}/plots/. - All the queries return the runtimes by varying the ingestion rate.
- To compute the storage performance of a given system:
cd systems/{system} sh compression.sh - Note: {system} needs to be replaced with the name of one of the systems from the table below.
TSM-Bench allows the integration of new systems seamlessly. We provide a step-by-step tutorial on how to integrate your system as part of the benchmark.
Should users wish, new queries can also be added to the benchmark. They must be added under each system's {system}/queries.sql file. Note that the order of the queries should be respected (e.g., q8 is the eighth query in the file).
We provide a GAN-based generation that allows augmenting a seed dataset with more and/or longer time series that have akin properties to the seed ones. The generation can be used either as a pre-trained model or by retraining from scratch the model.
Additional results not reported in the paper can be found here. The additional experiments cover:
- Advanced analytical queries in SQL and UDF
- Selection of the evaluated systems
- Parameterization of the systems
- Impact of data characteristics
- Abdelouahab Khelifati ([email protected])
- Mourad Khayati
- Luca Althaus
@article{DBLP:journals/pvldb/KhelifatiKDDC23,
author = {Abdelouahab Khelifati and
Mourad Khayati and
Anton Dign{\"{o}}s and
Djellel Eddine Difallah and
Philippe Cudr{\'{e}}{-}Mauroux},
title = {TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring
Applications},
journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
volume = {16},
number = {11},
pages = {3363--3376},
year = {2023},
url = {https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol16/p3363-khelifati.pdf},
doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611532},
timestamp = {Mon, 23 Oct 2023 16:16:16 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/pvldb/KhelifatiKDDC23.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}