Bazaar 2.0 Benchmarking Results
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Bazaar 2.0.0 vs Mercurial 1.3.1 Efficiency
Note that Bazaar Import represents server-side repository overhead for all branches imported while Bazaar Trunk represents client-side repository+branch+tree overhead for the trunk branch. See how we tested.
Project |
Mercurial |
Bazaar Import |
Bazaar Trunk |
Firefox 3.5 |
311 MB |
137 MB |
147 MB |
Xen 3.4-testing |
128 MB |
63 MB |
65 MB |
MoinMoin Wiki 1.8 |
82 MB |
55 MB |
56 MB |
Thunderbird 2.0 |
53 MB |
23 MB |
24 MB |
PIDA IDE |
11 MB |
3.8 MB |
4.0 MB |
Summary: The Bazaar 2.0 repository format is more efficient than Mercurial 1.3's and often by a substantial amount.
Bazaar 2.0.0 vs Git 1.6.3.3 Efficiency
Note that Bazaar Import represents server-side repository overhead for all branches imported while Bazaar Trunk represents client-side repository+branch+tree overhead for the trunk branch. See how we tested.
Project |
Git |
Bazaar Import |
Bazaar Trunk |
Samba |
203 MB |
353 MB |
29 MB |
Amarok |
53 MB |
57 MB |
58 MB |
X server |
34 MB |
41 MB |
31 MB |
Ruby on Rails |
25 MB |
23 MB |
23 MB |
dbus |
8.7 MB |
7.5 MB |
7.1 MB |
(The Samba figures are certainly weird. We're looking into it.)
Summary: The Bazaar 2.0 repository format is competitive with Git 1.6. On the majority of projects, users are unlikely to notice the difference either way.
Other comparisons - 2009
2009-08-16 Benchmark of Bzr 1.17, Hg 1.3.1, Git 1.6.3.3 by Jari Aalto. Summary: Git: Numbers speak fom themselves; Hg: slow network performance; Bzr: Gap to Hg leveled, branching as fast as in Git, disk space efficient.
2009-01-19 DVCS Round-Up: One System to Rule Them All by Robert Fendt . Summary: SVK: disk space hog, horrendously slow; darcs: disk space hog, scales badly; Monotone: emphasis on security;Bazaar: Jack of All Trades; Mercurial: speedy; Git: The Speed King,
Other comparisons - 2008
2008-08-05 git/bzr historical performance comparison by Jordan. Bzr 1.3.1 vs Git 1.5.4.3 on the Linux Kernel
2008-05-07 Distributed Version Control Systems: A Not-So-Quick Guide Through by Sebastien Auvray. Bzr 1.3.1, Hg 1.0, Git 1.5.5
2008-06-01 A Git, Mercurial, Bazaar Repository Size Benchmark by Pieter de Bie. Bzr 1.5, Hg 1.0, Git 1.5.5.3. Summary: Bazaar 1.5 is in average more than twice less space-efficient than Git 1.5.5.