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Performance Benchmarking and Optimizing Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Platform

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Thakkar, Parth, Nathan, Senthil, Viswanathan, Balaji·2018·2018 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)

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The rise in popularity of permissioned blockchain platforms in recent time is significant. Hyperledger Fabric is one such permissioned blockchain platform and one of the Hyperledger projects hosted by the Linux Foundation. The Fabric comprises various components such as smart-contracts, endorsers, committers, validators, and orderers. As the performance of blockchain platform is a major concern for enterprise applications, in this work, we perform a comprehensive empirical study to characterize the performance of Hyperledger Fabric and identify potential performance bottlenecks to gain a better understanding of the system. We follow a two-phased approach. In the first phase, our goal is to understand the impact of various configuration parameters such as block size, endorsement policy, channels, resource allocation, state database choice on the transaction throughput & latency to provide various guidelines on configuring these parameters. In addition, we also aim to identify performance bottlenecks and hotspots. We observed that (1) endorsement policy verification, (2) sequential policy validation of transactions in a block, and (3) state validation and commit (with CouchDB) were the three major bottlenecks. In the second phase, we focus on optimizing Hyperledger Fabric v1.0 based on our observations. We introduced and studied various simple optimizations such as aggressive caching for endorsement policy verification in the cryptography component (3x improvement in the performance) and parallelizing endorsement policy verification (7x improvement). Further, we enhanced and measured the effect of an existing bulk read/write optimization for CouchDB during state validation & commit phase (2.5x improvement). By combining all three optimizations1, we improved the overall throughput by 16x (i.e., from 140 tps to 2250 tps).

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Authors
Thakkar, P., Nathan, S., & Viswanathan, B.
Affiliations
  • National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (IN)
  • IBM Research - India (IN)
Venue
2018 IEEE 26th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2018-09
Pages
264-276
ISSN
1526-7539 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2806281946
Cited by
632
References
15
Citations by year
2026: 45 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 79 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 118 · 2020: 107 · 2019: 84 · 2018: 4
FWCI
61.41
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • Proceedings - International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Distributed systems and fault tolerance
Keywords
Hyperledger Fabric, permissioned blockchain, blockchain performance, performance bottlenecks, transaction throughput, latency, CouchDB, caching

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