Zhen Zeng and Govind Kamat stress test Azure Data Lake Store:
Now that we know the read and write throughput characteristics of a single Data Node, we would like to see how per-node performance scales when the number of Data Nodes in a cluster is increased.
The tool we use for scale testing is the Tera* suite that comes packaged with Hadoop. This is a benchmark that combines performance testing of the HDFS and MapReduce layers of a Hadoop cluster. The suite is comprised of three tools that are typically executed in sequence:
TeraGen, that tool that generates the input data. We use it to test the write performance of HDFS and ADLS.
TeraSort, which sorts the input data in a distributed fashion. This test is CPU bound and we don’t really use it to characterize the I/O performance or HDFS and ADLS, but it is included for completeness.
TeraValidate, the test that reads and validates the sorted data from the previous stage. We use it to test the read performance of HDFS and ADLS.
It’s an interesting look at how well ADLS scales. In general, my reading of this is fairly positive for Azure Data Lake Store.