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DistBench

1 November 2023

DistBench is a benchmarking harness for evaluating distributed consensus protocols under controlled conditions. It grew out of the need for reproducible comparisons in the BFT survey paper.

Language: Python + shell
Status: Stable

Features

Pluggable protocol backend: swap in Raft, PBFT, HotStuff, or any gRPC-based implementation
Synthetic workload generation (uniform, skewed, bursty) and YCSB trace replay
Configurable network emulation via tc/netem for latency, jitter, and packet loss
Structured JSON output with per-operation latency histograms
Experiment reproducibility via declarative YAML configs
Simple HTML report generation from result sets

Usage

pip install distbench
distbench run --config experiments/raft-wan.yaml
distbench report results/ --output report.html

Repository note

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