Report: Cloud Benchmark Reveals IBM SoftLayer Nearly Three Times Faster than Amazon Web Services
VoltDB-sponsored cloud benchmark analyzes performance and price/performance of leading cloud platforms.
VoltDB has announced the results of a VoltDB-sponsored YCSB cloud performance benchmark. Conducted by an independent third party, using VoltDB, the benchmark illustrates the performance and price/performance of the leading cloud platforms from Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM and Microsoft.
The ability to harness the power, agility and scalability of the cloud for data-intensive applications, like Internet–of-Things (IoT)-driven applications that analyze real-time streams of fast data, is critical to business success in today's data-driven economy. This year's benchmark effort analyzed the performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, IBM SoftLayer bare metal, IBM SoftLayer virtual machines and Microsoft Azure using the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB), an open-source specification and popular cloud performance benchmark.