WMS Performance Shootout at FOSS4G 2009
I’ve just received this in my mailbox from Cameron Shorter:
GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server will be competing for the title of “Fastest Web Map Server (WMS)” at the FOSS4G 2009 conference at the end of October. The Web Mapping Performance Shoot-out compares Web Map Servers in a variety of real world use cases. The performance shoot-out will see GeoServer, MapServer, and ArcGIS Server compared in terms of how long they take to generate a map image, from a common set of spatial data. The data formats used will be shapefile, geotiff, ECW, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, and SDE on Oracle. Benchmarking scripts will be executed on a common platform running Red Hat Linux. See the press release for more details. FOSS4G starts in two weeks, so if you are planning to go, you better make sure you have your ticket and travel plans sorted.
I’m looking forward to the results of these showdown, but if they don’t use some sort of caching on the images, I guess it will be a close match between MapServer and GeoServer. If they will use caches, I’m not sure who will win actually.
Oh, and if ESRI is using it’s MSD file, that won’t be fair because it’s not possible to always use the optimized MSD to create a mapservice, even ESRI is recommending not to use MSD’s yet in production environments (A colleague encountered this…).
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