[Benchmarking] 2013 Shootout?

[Jeff McKenna]

maybe this year we do a deegree, MapServer shootout?  Any other
interested development teams lurking???

-jeff



On 2013-04-09 10:06 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Oliver: I'd agree with you, it would be more of a comparison of features
> (MapProxy vs MapCache vs ...).  This could be done as a normal
> presentation by a single individual (as opposed to an exercise involving
> all teams).
> 
> Iván: In the MapServer world we (PSC, community) are heavily using
> MapCache, so there would be little interest (none really) to see
> MapServer-MapProxy used (don't mean this to be strong, just stating fact).
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013-04-09 9:35 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
>> Hi Jeff, hi Iván,
>>
>>
>> Tile servers are mostly just serving static files and all implementations should be able to push 1000 tile/s even on a small virtual server. This should be fine for 99.9% of all setups (even OSM peaks below 5000 tile/s). Need more performance? Put a varnish in front of it. Done.
>> Things you can't do for WMS. So, that is IMO not really worth benchmarking.
>>
>> Comparing other features like merging layers, WMS support, reprojection, performance of the seeding tool, etc. might be more interesting (but even harder to come up with proper benchmarks?!). But then you are comparing features that are not available in all tile engines. 
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Oliver
>>
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