LDBC Social Network Benchmark (LDBC-SNB)

The Social Network Benchmark (SNB) suite defines graph workloads targeting database management systems and is maintained by the LDBC SNB Task Force (work charter).
The benchmark suite consists of two distinct benchmarks on a common dataset, since there are two different workloads:

  • Business Intelligence workload is focusing on aggregation- and join-heavy complex queries touching a large portion of the graph with microbatches of insert/delete operations. Its data sets are available in Cloudflare R2.
  • Interactive workload captures transactional graph processing scenario with complex read queries that access the neighbourhood of a given node in the graph and update operations that continuously insert new data in the graph. Its data sets are available in the CWI/SURF data repository.

Each workload produces scoring metrics for performance at the given scale and price/performance metrics.
The Full Disclosure Report (FDR) further breaks down the composition of the metric into its constituent parts, e.g. single query execution times.

For a brief overview, see our talk given at FOSDEM 2023’s graph developer room. The Social Network Benchmark specification can be found on arXiv. If you are interested in getting audited results, please reach out at info AT ldbcouncil.org.

SNB Interactive workload – Audited results

Benchmark setup SF Hardware System cost Throughput Documents
30 Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8y.16xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
64×Arm-based YiTian 710
277,542 RMB 16,133.08 ops/s
100 Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8y.16xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
64×Arm-based YiTian 710
277,542 RMB 16,966.26 ops/s
300 Alibaba Cloud ecs.g8y.16xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
64×Arm-based YiTian 710
277,542 RMB 13,532.62 ops/s
30 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 384GiB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
291,176 USD 12,252.50 ops/s
100 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 384GiB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
291,176 USD 12,934.61 ops/s
300 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 384GiB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
291,176 USD 12,721.24 ops/s
30 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 372GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
263,282 USD 9,285.86 ops/s
100 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 372GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
263,282 USD 8,501.21 ops/s
300 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 372GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL
263,282 USD 8,370.52 ops/s
  • System: TuGraph 1.1
  • Test sponsor: FMA
  • Date:
  • Benchmark version: 0.3.2
  • Driver version: 0.3.3
  • Queries implemented in: C++ stored procedures
30 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 374GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M
280,650 USD 5,436.47 ops/s
100 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 374GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M
280,650 USD 5,010.77 ops/s
300 AWS r5d.12xlarge, 374GB RAM,
48×Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M
280,650 USD 4,855.52 ops/s
30 AWS r6id.8xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
32×Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C,
1 read thread, 1 write thread
216,222 USD 3.04 ops/s
30 AWS r6id.8xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
32×Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C,
2 read threads, 2 write threads
216,222 USD 6.76 ops/s
30 AWS r6id.8xlarge, 256GiB RAM,
32×Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C,
4 read threads, 4 write threads
216,222 USD 12.16 ops/s

SNB Business Intelligence workload – Audited results

Benchmark setup SF Hardware System cost Performance metrics Documents
1000 Dell PowerEdge 6625 with AMD EPYC 9354
1,353,315 USD
  • Power@SF: 30,990.08
  • Power@SF/USD: 22.90
  • Throughput@SF: 12,993.85
  • Throughput@SF/USD: 9.60

LDBC-certified auditors

SNB Interactive audits can be commissioned from the following LDBC-certified auditors:

  • Márton Búr
  • Arnau Prat-Pérez
  • David Püroja

SNB BI audits can be commissioned from the following LDBC-certified auditors:

  • Fabian Murariu (Pometry Ltd.)
  • David Püroja

For auditing requests, please reach out at info@ldbcouncil.org.
Audits can only be commissioned by LDBC member companies by contracting any of the LDBC-certified auditors.
Additionally, there is a 2,000 GBP auditing fee to be paid for the LDBC for non-sponsor company members. Sponsor companies are exempt from this.

Use of audited results

Fair use policies

The LDBC Social Network Benchmark is subject to the LDBC Fair Use Policies.

Legacy audited results

Social Network Benchmark Interactive, version 0.2.2