I am trying to perform a benchmark between SQLite performance in Android and iOS for a project, and seem to get really bad performance on the iOS platform, compared to Android.
What I am trying to achieve is to measure the time to insert a number of rows (5000) into the SQLite DB and compare between platforms. For Android I get results around 500ms to perform all 5000 inserts, but for iOS the same operation takes above 20s. How can this be?
This is a snippet of my iOS code (the insert part), dataArray is an array with 5000 random 100 char NSStrings:
int numEntries = 5000;
self.dataArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:numEntries];//Array for random data to write to database
//generate random data (100 char strings)
for (int i=0; i<numEntries; i++) {
[self.dataArray addObject:[self genRandStringLength:100]];
}
// Get the documents directory
NSArray *dirPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *docsDir = [dirPaths objectAtIndex:0];
// Build the path to the database file
NSString *databasePath = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:[docsDir stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"benchmark.db"]];
NSString *resultHolder = @"";
//Try to open DB, if file not present, create it
if (sqlite3_open([databasePath UTF8String], &db) == SQLITE_OK){
sql = @"CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS BENCHMARK(ID INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, TESTCOLUMN TEXT)";
//Create table
if (sqlite3_exec(db, [sql UTF8String], NULL, NULL, NULL) == SQLITE_OK){
NSLog(@"DB created");
}else{
NSLog(@"Failed to create DB");
}
//START: INSERT BENCHMARK
NSDate *startTime = [[NSDate alloc] init];//Get timestamp for insert-timer
//Insert values in DB, one by one
for (int i = 0; i<numEntries; i++) {
sql = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"INSERT INTO BENCHMARK (TESTCOLUMN) VALUES('%@')",[self.dataArray objectAtIndex:i]];
if (sqlite3_exec(db, [sql UTF8String], NULL, NULL, NULL) == SQLITE_OK){
//Insert successful
}
}
//Append time consumption to display string
resultHolder = [resultHolder stringByAppendingString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"5000 insert ops took %f sec\n", [startTime timeIntervalSinceNow]]];
//END: INSERT BENCHMARK
Android code snippet:
// SETUP
long startTime, finishTime;
// Get database object
BenchmarkOpenHelper databaseHelper = new BenchmarkOpenHelper(getApplicationContext());
SQLiteDatabase database = databaseHelper.getWritableDatabase();
// Generate array containing random data
int rows = 5000;
String[] rowData = new String[rows];
int dataLength = 100;
for (int i=0; i<rows; i++) {
rowData[i] = generateRandomString(dataLength);
}
// FIRST TEST: Insertion
startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) {
database.rawQuery("INSERT INTO BENCHMARK (TESTCOLUMN) VALUES(?)", new String[] {rowData[i]});
}
finishTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
result += "Insertion test took: " + String.valueOf(finishTime-startTime) + "ms \n";
// END FIRST TEST
