upstream-seaweedfs/test/benchmark/fuse_db

FUSE database load / durability / performance benchmark

Runs MySQL (InnoDB) and SQLite with their data files on a SeaweedFS FUSE mount, with ~1 GB datasets, and answers two questions:

1. Durability — does any committed data get lost across normal shutdown, an unexpected kill -9, or a crash during active writes?
2. Performance — how much slower is the FUSE mount than the local disk for the same workload (bulk load, OLTP commits, scans, raw fsync)?

Each row carries a CRC32 of an incompressible (so ~1 GB actually hits the volumes) deterministic payload; verification checks integrity_check/CHECK TABLE, exact row count, contiguous-id prefix, and a per-row CRC recompute.

Results (single node, macOS arm64 + macFUSE, weed 4.34, local NVMe, 2026-06-15)

Durability — 6/6 PASS, no committed data lost, no corruption

scenario	what	SQLite	MySQL
A normal shutdown	graceful DB stop, unmount, cluster stop, restart, verify	PASS	PASS
B unexpected (kill -9)	kill -9 db+mount+cluster, restart, recover, verify	PASS	PASS
C crash during writes	kill -9 mid-load, restart, recover, verify committed prefix	PASS	PASS

Scenario C confirmed correct recovery: the in-flight transaction rolled back, every fsync-committed row survived as a contiguous prefix (InnoDB redo recovery ~9 s).

Performance — FUSE vs host (same disk, same durability settings)

Raw filesystem:

metric	host	FUSE	FUSE slower
seq write +fsync	2336 MB/s	369 MB/s	6.3x
seq read (warm)	3435 MB/s	1422 MB/s	2.4x
fsync latency	0.13 ms	1.18 ms	9x

SQLite (1 GB, journal=DELETE, synchronous=FULL):

metric	host	FUSE	FUSE slower
bulk load	5.8 s (177 MB/s)	11.6 s (88 MB/s)	2.0x
OLTP 1-row txns	1987 tx/s	171 tx/s	11.6x
full scan (warm)	316 MB/s	427 MB/s	~equal (python-bound)

MySQL/InnoDB (1 GB, trx_commit=1, flush_method=fsync):

metric	host	FUSE	FUSE slower
bulk load	24.4 s (42 MB/s)	32.9 s (31 MB/s)	1.35x
OLTP 1-row commits	10542 tx/s	1144 tx/s	9.2x
full scan	2419 MB/s	430 MB/s	5.6x

Takeaway: the cost is dominated by fsync/commit latency (0.13 → 1.18 ms, ~9x) because every durable commit uploads the chunk to the volume + persists the filer chunk-manifest over loopback. Small fsync'd transactions are ~9-12x slower; bulk loads (commits amortized) are 1.3-2x slower; warm/sequential reads are close to host. These are single-node loopback numbers — a real cluster (remote volumes, replication) adds network RTT + replica fsync per commit.

Durability caveat (test scope)

kill -9 terminates the processes while the OS keeps running, so everything that reached the OS page cache (all fsync'd data) survives — this faithfully tests process/daemon crashes and is what passed 6/6. It does not simulate true power loss (page cache lost). The FUSE mount uploads chunks without fsync=true (weed/mount/weedfs_write.go builds UploadOption with no Fsync), so the volume does not fsync .dat per upload and the filer leveldb likely does not sync per write; under a real power cut, recently-"committed" data that only reached the page cache could be lost. A VM hard-reset / power-loss test on real hardware is the follow-up to close that gap.

Requirements

• weed on $PATH (or set WEED=/path/to/weed)
• macFUSE (macOS) or libfuse (Linux)
• python3, sqlite3
• MySQL/MariaDB install; set MYSQL_BASE to its prefix (default macOS Homebrew /opt/homebrew/opt/mysql; must contain bin/mysqld, bin/mysql, bin/mysqladmin). For mysql_bench.py on a non-default install, also set MYSQL_BIN=/path/to/mysql.

Run

Runtime artifacts (cluster, mount, logs) go to $SEAWEED_BENCH_WORK (default /tmp/seaweedfs_fuse_db_bench), kept out of the repo.

cd test/benchmark/fuse_db
bash bin/run_sqlite.sh   > results/sqlite.log   2>&1   # SQLite durability suite
bash bin/run_mysql.sh    > results/mysql.log    2>&1   # MySQL durability suite
bash bin/compare.sh      > results/compare.log  2>&1   # FUSE vs host performance

The harness manages only its own processes (via pidfiles) on non-default ports (9555/9560/9565, mysqld 3308); it never runs pkill weed, so other SeaweedFS instances on the box are untouched.

Files

bin/lib.sh           cluster/mount/mysqld lifecycle helpers (start/stop/kill, clean state)
bin/run_sqlite.sh    SQLite 1GB load + A/B/C crash scenarios
bin/run_mysql.sh     MySQL 1GB load + A/B/C crash scenarios
bin/compare.sh       FUSE-vs-host driver
bin/sqlite_gen.py    deterministic incompressible SQLite loader (progress/ref files)
bin/sqlite_verify.py SQLite integrity + count + prefix + per-row CRC verifier
bin/sqlite_bench.py  SQLite load/OLTP/scan timing probe
bin/mysql_bench.py   MySQL load/OLTP/scan timing probe (via mysql CLI)
bin/fsbench.py       raw seq-write / fsync-latency / seq-read microbenchmark

The numbers above are the reference baseline; rerun the scripts to reproduce. Run output is written to results/*.log, which is gitignored (repo-wide *.log rule) -- not checked in.