Hi everyone, I encountered a noticeable difference in latency between PBC and HTTP when querying Riak for large data.
Consider the following setup: 3-node Riak 1.3 cluster with default settings on LevelDB is connected to an application server via 100Mbit LAN. KV contains a key of size 25 megabytes. I request that key using both HTTP and PBC in order to compare the delays: http://pastebin.com/dr8N82t4 It is interesting that I'm getting completely different timings when I swap the request order: HTTP first, then PBC: ----------------- $ ./riak_latency_test.py HTTP 24555775 4.82462286949 sec PBC 24555775 7.63437104225 sec ----------------- Vice versa: ----------------- $ ./riak_latency_test.py PBC 24555775 18.1577270031 sec HTTP 24555775 4.79673409462 sec ----------------- Note that these results are stable in the sense of repeatability, i.e. successive runs of every combination yield pretty the same timings. However, that little observation is hardly relevant to my question, which is: Why protobuf is so slow being compared with HTTP? Is it possible to speed it up via fine tuning, or shall I resort to using HTTP? Regards, Pavel.
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