BlueData® and Intel® have collaborated in an unprecedented benchmark of the performance of Big Data workloads. These workloads are benchmarked in a bare-metal environment versus a container-based environment that uses the BlueData EPIC™ software platform. Results show that you can take advantage of the BlueData benefits of agility, flexibility, and cost reduction while running Apache Hadoop* in Docker* containers, and still gain the performance of a bare-metal environment.
In a benchmark study, Intel compared the performance of Big Data workloads running on a bare-metal deployment verses running in Docker containers with the BlueData Epic software platform. This landmark benchmark study used unmodified Apache Hadoop* workloads. The workloads for both test environments ran on apples-to-apples configurations on Intel® Xeon® processors-based architecture. The goal was to find out if you could run Big Data in a container-based environments without sacrificing the performance that is so critical to Big Data frameworks.
