Benchmarking 2010

Basic Premise

Following up on last year's exercise, the performance shoot-out presentation at FOSS4G2010 will test how long each Web mapping server takes to generate a map image, from a common set of spatial data, on a common platform. The data will be served by each Web mapping server through the WMS standard, which will serve exactly the same set of LAYERS. A JMeter load will be run on the testing box to measure various aspects of those layers.

Timeline

January 1st 2010	begin contacting all mapping servers
February 1st 2010	commitment due by all interested mapping servers
March 1st 2010	exercise begins (and weekly meetings)
August 1st 2010	final testing begins
August 23rd 2010	no further testing
September 6-9 2010	present results at FOSS4G2010

Communication

Coordination/communication is primarily via the Benchmarking mailing list: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/benchmarking

Weekly meetings will occur through IRC chat in the #foss4g channel on irc.freenode.net

Potential Participants

Mapping Server	Team Leader	Contacted	Confirmed
GeoServer	Andrea Aime	yes	yes
MapServer	Jeff McKenna	yes	yes
ESRI ArcGIS Server
Erdas Apollo
MapGuide Open Source
Deegree
Oracle MapViewer	Mike Smith
Mapnik	Dane Springmeyer	yes	yes

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