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TSBS Supplemental Guide: QuestDB

QuestDB is a high-performance open-source time series database with SQL as a query language with time-oriented extensions. QuestDB implements PostgreSQL wire protocol, a REST API, and supports ingestion using InfluxDB line protocol.

This guide explains how the data for TSBS is generated along with additional flags available when using the data importer (tsbs_load_questdb). This should be read after the main README.

Data format

Data generated by tsbs_generate_data is in InfluxDB line protocol format where each reading is composed of the following:

  • the table name followed by a comma
  • several comma-separated items of tags in the format <label>=<value> followed by a space
  • several comma-separated items of fields in the format <label>=<value> followed by a space
  • a timestamp for the record
  • a newline character \n

An example reading from the iot use case looks like the following:

diagnostics,name=truck_3985,fleet=West,driver=Seth,model=H-2,device_version=v1.5 load_capacity=1500,fuel_capacity=150,nominal_fuel_consumption=12,fuel_state=0.8,current_load=482,status=4i 1451609990000000000

tsbs_load_questdb additional flags

--ilp-bind-to (type: string, default 127.0.0.1:9009)

QuestDB InfluxDB line protocol TCP port in the format <ip>:<port>

--url (type: string, default: http://localhost:9000/)

QuestDB REST end point.

-help

Prints available flags and their defaults:

tsbs_load_questdb --help

How to run the test (FreeBSD example)

Firstly, install and build the benchmark suite

Set up TSBS

Create a temporary directory for the Go binaries

mkdir -p ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/
cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/

Clone the TSBS repository, build test and install Go binaries:

git clone [email protected]:questdb/tsbs.git
cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/benchant/tsbs/ && git checkout questdb-tsbs-load-new
GOPATH=~/tmp/go go build -v ./...
GOPATH=~/tmp/go go test -v github.com/benchant/tsbs/cmd/tsbs_load_questdb
GOPATH=~/tmp/go go install -v ./...

Generating data

Data is generated using the influx format. To generate a small dataset for quick benchmarks:

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_generate_data \
--use-case="cpu-only" --seed=123 --scale=4000 \
--timestamp-start="2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" --timestamp-end="2016-01-01T01:00:00Z" \
--log-interval="10s" --format="influx" > /tmp/data

To generate a full data set for more intensive benchmarks:

tsbs_generate_data \
--use-case="cpu-only" --seed=123 --scale=4000 \
--timestamp-start="2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" --timestamp-end="2016-01-02T00:00:00Z" \
--log-interval="10s" --format="influx" > /tmp/data

Running the benchmark tool

Generated data can be loaded directly using the tool:

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_load_questdb --file /tmp/data --workers 4

Alternatively, shell scripts are provided which can be used to generate and load data:

cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/tsbs

# generates data file /tmp/bulk_data/influx-data.gz
PATH=${PATH}:~/tmp/go/bin FORMATS=influx TS_END=2016-01-01T02:00:00Z bash ./scripts/generate_data.sh
# load data into QuestDB
PATH=${PATH}:~/tmp/go/bin NUM_WORKERS=1 ./scripts/load/load_questdb.sh

Query benchmarks for iot data set (single-groupby-5-8-1 type)

Queries are generated using the questdb format.

single-groupby-5-8-1:

The dataset used to run the queries is created with the following commands for single-groupby-5-8-1:

cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_generate_queries \
--use-case="cpu-only" --seed=123 --scale=4000 \
--timestamp-start="2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" --timestamp-end="2016-01-02T00:00:01Z" \
--queries=1000 --query-type="single-groupby-5-8-1" \
--format="questdb" > /tmp/queries_questdb

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_run_queries_questdb --file /tmp/queries_questdb --print-interval 500

Query benchmarks for iot data set (high-cpu-1 use case)

Queries are generated using the questdb format.

high-cpu-1:

The dataset used to run the queries is created with the following commands for high-cpu-1:

cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_generate_queries \
--use-case="cpu-only" --seed=123 --scale=4000 \
--timestamp-start="2016-01-01T00:00:00Z" --timestamp-end="2016-01-02T00:00:01Z" \
--queries=1000 --query-type="high-cpu-1" --format="questdb" > /tmp/queries_questdb

~/tmp/go/bin/tsbs_run_queries_questdb --file /tmp/queries_questdb --print-interval 500

Query benchmark shell scripts

Additionally, shell scripts are provided which can be used to generate and run the queries:

cd ~/tmp/go/src/github.com/timescale/
PATH=${PATH}:~/tmp/go/bin FORMATS=questdb TS_END=2016-01-02T00:00:00Z bash ./scripts/generate_queries.sh
PATH=${PATH}:~/tmp/go/bin ./scripts/run_queries/run_queries_questdb.sh