2023 Bitcoin Node Performance Tests
"Five years ago I started running an annual comprehensive comparison of various implementations to see how well they performed full blockchain validation. Now it's time to see what has changed over the past year!"
- "Given that the strongest security model a user can obtain in a public permissionless crypto asset network is to fully validate the entire history themselves, I think it’s important that we keep track of the resources required to do so," wrote Jameson Lopp in a blog post."
- "While I ran each implementation on the same hardware and synced against a local network peer to keep those variables as consistent as possible, there are other factors that come into play."
- Not all implementations have caching; even when configurable cache options are available it’s not always the same type of caching.
- Not all nodes perform the same indexing functions. For example, Libbitcoin Server always indexes all transactions by hash — it’s inherent to the database structure. Thus this full node sync is more properly comparable to Bitcoin Core with the transaction indexing option enabled.
- Your mileage may vary due to any number of other variables such as operating system and file system performance.
