LDBC SNB Business Intelligence workload

The LDBC SNB 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 and in the SURF/CWI repository.

For an overview of the workload, see the VLDB 2023 paper and its presentation by Gábor Szárnyas. For a detailed specification, see the LDBC Social Network Benchmark specification.

The workload produces scoring metrics for performance (power and throughput scores) at the given scale and price/performance metrics. The full disclosure reports (FDRs) further break down the composition of the metric into its constituent parts, e.g. single query execution times.

The table below contains audited results. Note that the system cost indicates the 3-year TCO (total cost of ownership), which is the sum of the license, hardware, and maintenance costs (where maintenance means 24/7 support with a response time of less than 4 hours).

Audited results

Benchmark setup SF Hardware Performance metrics and cost Documents
1,000 Dell PowerEdge R7725 with
64×AMD EPYC 9355 CPU cores and
1.5TiB RAM
  • Power@SF: 34,949.74
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 24.99
  • Throughput@SF: 15,089.13
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 10.79
30,000 72 Alibaba Cloud ecs.r7.16xlarge instances:
64×Intel Xeon Platinum 8369B vCPUs, 
512 GiB RAM per instance
  • Power@SF: 111,775.39
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 19.79
  • Throughput@SF: 56,920.48
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 10.08
100 1 AWS r6a.4xlarge instance:
16×AMD EPYC 7R13 vCPUs,
128GiB RAM
  • Power@SF: 6,253.72
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 43.79
  • Throughput@SF: 3,723.44
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 26.07
1,000 4 AWS r6a.8xlarge instances:
32×AMD EPYC 7R13 vCPUs,
256GiB RAM per instance
  • Power@SF: 23,951.74
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 18.39
  • Throughput@SF: 10,605.12
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 8.14
10,000 48 AWS r6a.8xlarge instances:
32×AMD EPYC 7R13 vCPUs,
256GiB RAM per instance
  • Power@SF: 89,444.50
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 11.36
  • Throughput@SF: 41,025.76
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 5.21
1,000 Dell PowerEdge 6625 with
64×AMD EPYC 9354 CPU cores and
1.5TiB RAM
  • Power@SF: 30,990.08
  • Power@SF (price‑adjusted): 22.90
  • Throughput@SF: 12,993.85
  • Throughput@SF (price‑adjusted): 9.60

The audited LDBC SNB BI results displayed above are available as a CSV file.

LDBC-certified auditors

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

  • Fabian Murariu (Pometry Ltd.)
  • David Püroja