Recently, Google has launched PerfKit, an open-source cloud-benchmarking
tool. The PerfKit tools currently support Google’s
own Compute Engine, Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure
clouds [32].
The benchmarking test conducted by Engineers at the University
of Toronto in 2012 found that, Apache Cassandra is the
winner throughout their experiments. End Point Corporation, a
database and open source consulting company, benchmarked the
top 3 NoSQL databases as follows, all using a variety workloads on
Amazon Web Services(AWS) [33]:
1. Apache Cassandra.
2. Apache HBase.
3. MongoDB.