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SOSD is a benchmark to compare (learned) index structures on equality lookup performance over densely packed, sorted data. It comes with state-of-the-art baseline implementations to compare against and many datasets to compare on. Each dataset consists of 200 million to 800 million 32-bit or 64-bit unsigned integers.
On vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install zstd python3-pip m4 cmake clang libboost-all-dev
pip3 install --user numpy scipy
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
We provide a number of scripts to automate things. Each is located in the scripts directory, but should be executed from the repository root.
./scripts/download.sh downloads and stores required data from the Internet./scripts/build_rmis.sh compiles and builds the RMIs for each dataset. If you run into the error message error: no override and no default toolchain set, try running rustup install stable.
./scripts/download_rmis.sh will download pre-built RMIs instead, which may be faster. You'll need to run build_rmis.sh if you want to measure build times on your platform../scripts/prepare.sh constructs query workloads and compiles the benchmark./scripts/execute.sh executes the benchmark on each workload, storing the results in results. You can use the -c flag to output a .csv file of results rather than a .txt.Build times can be long, as we make aggressive use of templates to ensure we do not accidentally measure vtable lookup time. For development, this can be annoying: you can set USE_FAST_MODE in config.h to disable some features and get a faster build time.
If you use this benchmark in your own work, please cite us:
@article{sosd-vldb,
author = {Ryan Marcus and
Andreas Kipf and
Alexander van Renen and
Mihail Stoian and
Sanchit Misra and
Alfons Kemper and
Thomas Neumann and
Tim Kraska},
title = {Benchmarking Learned Indexes},
journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
volume = {14},
number = {1},
pages = {1--13},
year = {2020}
}
@article{sosd-neurips,
title={SOSD: A Benchmark for Learned Indexes},
author={Kipf, Andreas and Marcus, Ryan and van Renen, Alexander and Stoian, Mihail and Kemper, Alfons and Kraska, Tim and Neumann, Thomas},
journal={NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems},
year={2019}
}
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_____ ____ _____ ____
/ ___// __ \/ ___// __ \
\__ \/ / / /\__ \/ / / /
___/ / /_/ /___/ / /_/ /
/____/\____//____/_____/
SOSD is a benchmark to compare (learned) index structures on equality lookup performance over densely packed, sorted data. It comes with state-of-the-art baseline implementations to compare against and many datasets to compare on. Each dataset consists of 200 million to 800 million 32-bit or 64-bit unsigned integers.
On vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
sudo apt -y update
sudo apt -y install zstd python3-pip m4 cmake clang libboost-all-dev
pip3 install --user numpy scipy
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
We provide a number of scripts to automate things. Each is located in the scripts directory, but should be executed from the repository root.
./scripts/download.sh downloads and stores required data from the Internet./scripts/build_rmis.sh compiles and builds the RMIs for each dataset. If you run into the error message error: no override and no default toolchain set, try running rustup install stable.
./scripts/download_rmis.sh will download pre-built RMIs instead, which may be faster. You'll need to run build_rmis.sh if you want to measure build times on your platform../scripts/prepare.sh constructs query workloads and compiles the benchmark./scripts/execute.sh executes the benchmark on each workload, storing the results in results. You can use the -c flag to output a .csv file of results rather than a .txt.Build times can be long, as we make aggressive use of templates to ensure we do not accidentally measure vtable lookup time. For development, this can be annoying: you can set USE_FAST_MODE in config.h to disable some features and get a faster build time.
If you use this benchmark in your own work, please cite us:
@article{sosd-vldb,
author = {Ryan Marcus and
Andreas Kipf and
Alexander van Renen and
Mihail Stoian and
Sanchit Misra and
Alfons Kemper and
Thomas Neumann and
Tim Kraska},
title = {Benchmarking Learned Indexes},
journal = {Proc. {VLDB} Endow.},
volume = {14},
number = {1},
pages = {1--13},
year = {2020}
}
@article{sosd-neurips,
title={SOSD: A Benchmark for Learned Indexes},
author={Kipf, Andreas and Marcus, Ryan and van Renen, Alexander and Stoian, Mihail and Kemper, Alfons and Kraska, Tim and Neumann, Thomas},
journal={NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Systems},
year={2019}
}
331 followers · starred Aug 2026
229 followers · starred Jul 2021
1,903 followers · starred Nov 2023
15 followers · starred Apr 2025