Description
BDB v5 adds a new method to Environment to allow for the flushing of logs to disk (synchronously if desired) without having to run a full checkpoint. This seems to directly address our use case of BDB.
Upgrading BDB and making use of this feature shows significant performance benefits, especially where there are a low number of concurrent connections.
For a single producer/consumer transactional case, I have observed a performance increase of 56%; for 2 producers/consumers 50%...