Benchmarks

[CheeseTastisch]

I know many people who want to switch to SurrealDB but are currently not sure, because of missing benchmarks.
I for myself am not sure to switch, as I'm not sure if SurrealDB can deliver the same performance as other databases such as PostgreSQL with big data sets.

Therfore I would like to have some benchmarks.
I know it's hard to have just a simple benchmark with SurrealDB as it's such a complex system, but i have an idea, that i want do propose:

Add a section to the features page of the webside, where a user can select three things:

1. A 'Backend', as there may be performance differences with diffrent Backends
2. A 'Way of Querying', with the possibilities of for example 'WebSocket' or 'HTTP-API'
3. A Feature, such as 'Simple Select', 'Select with multiple tables' or 'Creating an record'

If the user select a feature and none or one of the others, a graph is shown, comparing that feature with the diffrent backends and/or ways of querying. If the user selects all three, a graph is shown, that compares that feature with diffrent other databases, that have the same feature.
For example selecting

1. TiKV,
2. WebSocket and
3. Select with multiple tables

could show a graph comparing a select of accross multiple tables in SurrealDB, and a select with a join in MySQL and PostgreSQL.

If such a section or page is implemented, it would greatly improve the amount users who realy switch to SurrealDB, as they know, how SurrealDB compares to other databases, they may currently use.

[AlexFrid]

Thanks for the suggestions @CheeseTastisch 🙌

We have been working on various benchmarks similar to those you suggested, the plan is to release them publically with our 2.0 stable release.