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Quick Start

This section describes how to run YCSB on Azure table storage.

1. 1. Create an Azure Storage account.
2. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-create-storage-account/#create-a-storage-account

2. Install Java and Maven

3. Set Up YCSB

Git clone YCSB and compile:

git clone http://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB.git
cd YCSB
mvn -pl com.yahoo.ycsb:azuretablestorage-binding -am clean package

4. Provide Azure Storage parameters

Set the account name and access key.

• azure.account
• azure.key

Or, you can set configs with the shell command, EG:

./bin/ycsb load azuretablestorage -s -P workloads/workloada -p azure.account=YourAccountName -p azure.key=YourAccessKey > outputLoad.txt

5. Load data and run tests

Load the data:

./bin/ycsb load azuretablestorage -s -P workloads/workloada -p azure.account=YourAccountName -p azure.key=YourAccessKey > outputLoad.txt

Run the workload test:

    ./bin/ycsb run azuretablestorage -s -P workloads/workloada -p azure.account=YourAccountName -p azure.key=YourAccessKey > outputRun.txt

6. Optional Azure Storage parameters

• azure.batchsize

Could be between 1 ~ 100. Insert records to table in batch if batchsize > 1.

• azure.protocol

https(in default) or http.

• azure.table

The name of the table('usertable' in default).

• azure.partitionkey

The partitionkey('Test' in default).

• azure.endpoint

For Azure stack WOSS.

EG:

    ./bin/ycsb load azuretablestorage -s -P workloads/workloada -p azure.account=YourAccountName -p azure.key=YourAccessKey -p azure.batchsize=100 -p azure.protocol=http