While working on a project with a massive amount of small xml docs stored in temp files, this poc should validate the idea to store these files in ESENT instead of storing the docs on a hdd. Test were executed with an cheap external Samsung 2TB HDD / USB 3.0.
Starting test with size '1024' bytes and '1000' runs.
FileSystem: 00:00:03.9805850
Esent: 00:00:00.2578887
Starting test with size '2048' bytes and '1000' runs.
FileSystem: 00:00:04.4507184
Esent: 00:00:00.2061388
Starting test with size '4096' bytes and '1000' runs.
FileSystem: 00:00:04.3373470
Esent: 00:00:00.2795267
Starting test with size '8192' bytes and '1000' runs.
FileSystem: 00:00:05.1139716
Esent: 00:00:00.4399013
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