Hyperledger Besu benchmarks

Contents

• eea.ts, a lightweight TypeScript wrapper around PegaSys's web3.js EEA extensions and private smart contract operations. See main.ts for example usage;
• rpc.py, a utility script to help interact with Besu's JSON RPC. Usage: ./rpc.py <method> <params> <endpoint>, for example ./rpc.py admin_nodeInfo.

Benchmark

Environment

• VM: Azure D2s_v3 (2 vCPU, 8 GB)
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• DLT: 4 IBFT 2.0 nodes where only the first two nodes are privacy-enabled
  • Hyperledger Besu 1.2.4
  • Orion 1.4.0

Results

KeyValueStore

Key-value pairs	Batch size	Parallel?	Store	Fetch
100	5	❌	54432.529ms	52249.685ms
100	10	❌	26855.693ms	25716.169ms
100	50	❌	58093.335ms	37195.854ms