Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS vs. Clear Linux Comparison

Intel Xeon E3-1231 tests on various Linux distributions. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Ubuntu 15.10
January 08 2016
 
Fedora 23
January 09 2016
 
CentOS 7 1511
January 09 2016
 
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
January 09 2016
 
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
January 10 2016
 
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January 10 2016
 
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Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. CentOS vs. Clear Linux Comparison, "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",0.040089,0.04006,0.03992 "Fedora 23",1176.411058,1177.434751,1178.738256 "CentOS 7 1511",1058.243476,1061.276427,1062.068843 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",2063.48334,2047.205752,2063.805806 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",1167.758668,1169.774343,1168.594417 "Clear Linux 5700",1787.863584,2002.435307,2009.790324 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",785.07,887.88,833.7,775.13,813.89,769.03 "Fedora 23",675.83,750.82,682.78,682.7,717.12,671.97 "CentOS 7 1511",695.48,716.05,742.31 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",401.12,476.42,391.35,399.43,348.8,352.06 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",834.98,881,853.55 "Clear Linux 5700",1615.27,1854.42,1687.62,1568.54,1637.02,1717.21 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",78,77,77 "Fedora 23",76,76,76 "CentOS 7 1511",84,84,85 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",85,84,84 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",77,76,76 "Clear Linux 5700",27,26,27 "Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",36894.41,37698.58,36975.45 "Fedora 23",22813.49,22966.07,22817.56 "CentOS 7 1511",20076.89,19973.2,20409.08 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",44537.82,44230.43,44516.87 "Clear Linux 5700",32754.39,31708.58,31416.02 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6865.812414,6820.31127,6805.216544 "Fedora 23",6996.114852,6910.040863,6934.131684 "CentOS 7 1511",4794.918073,4800.547737,4748.347001 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",5627.841376,4704.09034,5159.392429,5145.145889,5623.843931,5956.99142 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",4593.93345,4583.722602,4569.800088 "Clear Linux 5700",6852.215257,6830.202501,6830.996245 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: GET", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",2320185.75,2207505.5,2320185.75 "Fedora 23",2096436.12,2066115.75,2070393.38 "CentOS 7 1511",2375297,2369668.25,2252252.25 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",2645502.75,2277904.25,2141327.5,2267573.5,2439024.5,2325581.25 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",2506265.75,2832861.25,2770083,2793296,2331002.5,2624671.75 "Clear Linux 5700",3012048.25,3039513.75,2985074.5 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",7533.235261,7515.106862,7497.74631 "Fedora 23",7799.137731,7830.814731,7809.875792 "CentOS 7 1511",6322.014458,6192.862413,6272.828183 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",7370.818226,5852.672166,5257.269421,5730.695999,5481.124082,5259.855275 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",6016.372867,6174.127542,6175.469105 "Clear Linux 5700",7483.905403,7473.090013,7465.682059 "SQLite 3.8.10.2 - Test Target: Default Test Directory", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",24.590488910675,24.730244874954,24.572021961212 "Ubuntu 15.10",24.306486129761,24.490696907043,24.418664216995 "Fedora 23",25.544519901276,25.404350996017,25.547384977341 "CentOS 7 1511",32.593516111374,32.421958208084,32.366747140884 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",24.477591991425,24.380774974823,24.663697957993 "Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",28.007281064987,28.333551168442,28.15621805191 "Fedora 23",26.092214822769,26.067012071609,26.106013059616 "CentOS 7 1511",25.116000175476,25.16769695282,25.147841930389 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",26.733974933624,26.990191936493,26.962471008301 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",27.018942832947,27.184783935547,27.12443614006 "Clear Linux 5700",31.340034008026,31.246568918228,31.489185810089 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6.1103999614716,6.04363489151,6.0953319072723,6.0268712043762,6.0410108566284 "Fedora 23",6.1558589935303,6.2234799861908,5.9923939704895,6.1410868167877,6.1676731109619 "CentOS 7 1511",7.2202119827271,7.191376209259,7.1842429637909,7.4611020088196,7.5253610610962 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",7.4208590984344,7.1975929737091,7.2973439693451,7.1834819316864,7.2240161895752 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",5.9673430919647,5.9231481552124,5.9250240325928,5.9766840934753,5.9869070053101 "PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",6944,6944,6756 "Fedora 23",6410,6410,6410 "CentOS 7 1511",5952,6250,6250 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",6578,6578,6410 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",6097,6250,6250 "Clear Linux 5700",7142,7575,7352 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",73.328551054001,73.258323907852,73.254549980164 "Fedora 23",83.580540895462,91.5704600811,90.935931921005,83.393858909607,83.525995016098,83.678923130035 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",73.648537874222,73.54696893692,73.521483898163 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",73.380434036255,75.280133962631,73.157027959824 "Clear Linux 5700",77.157925844193,77.163352012634,77.624611854553 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",284.46,281.91,283.75 "Fedora 23",296.16,294.69,297.29 "CentOS 7 1511",262.09,260.81,258.62 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",259.77,257.97,259.29 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",294.09,294.45,290.43 "Clear Linux 5700",303.02,303.66,304.52 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",1948.465993,1963.623216,1960.134857 "Fedora 23",1964.057424,1675.008551,1790.374367,1796.625451,1681.750251,1935.086896 "CentOS 7 1511",1759.891408,1749.915523,1756.947381 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",1762.83568,1758.46319,1658.655853 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",1967.034499,1968.270681,1978.58768 "Clear Linux 5700",1867.449454,1861.467457,1858.896768 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",4.6249430179596,4.6488530635834,5.0486810207367,4.6007270812988,4.6947641372681,4.5275368690491 "Fedora 23",4.6069188117981,4.5269191265106,5.2334609031677,4.5160720348358,4.6130130290985,4.6042020320892 "CentOS 7 1511",5.2038841247559,4.6953291893005,5.3333249092102,4.7896540164948,4.7104578018188,4.7732801437378 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",5.5852379798889,4.7732329368591,4.8281581401825,4.7784070968628,4.7882499694824,5.2268390655518 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",5.1048231124878,4.9599680900574,4.5461571216583,5.0639889240265,4.5219929218292,4.575257062912 "Clear Linux 5700",4.4767868518829,4.540757894516,4.5174810886383 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",11.755265951157,11.706421136856,11.692120790482,11.784638881683,11.7134578228 "Fedora 23",12.147837877274,11.882301092148,11.754323005676,11.538722038269,11.664729118347 "CentOS 7 1511",12.9969830513,12.912126064301,12.99104809761,13.05336689949,12.936753034592 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",12.806811094284,12.791010856628,12.764565944672,12.870244979858,12.733736991882 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",11.706130981445,12.072077035904,11.833781003952,11.723871946335,11.704592943192 "Clear Linux 5700",12.653351783752,12.679975986481,12.775770187378,12.662925004959,12.701651096344 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.3 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",114.48667001724,112.58686494827,114.33827090263 "Ubuntu 15.10",114.66022086143,113.49657893181,112.75000786781 "Fedora 23",108.36803913116,105.4604408741,105.19830799103 "CentOS 7 1511",104.03883481026,102.63482689857,102.37527179718 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",109.95409989357,107.85386180878,108.84599304199 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",2673.56,2685.23,2678.45 "Fedora 23",2693.66,2682.41,2674.47 "CentOS 7 1511",2642.35,2644.64,2648.69 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",2671.55,2663.07,2674.17 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",2535.59,2646.44,2572.61 "Clear Linux 5700",2809.72,2778.9,2815.01 "Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",22.434409141541,22.55553817749,22.49725985527 "Fedora 23",22.550327062607,22.817915916443,22.808054924011 "CentOS 7 1511",21.554963111877,21.420096874237,21.512365818024 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",21.532838821411,21.788347959518,21.612046003342 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",14787.56,14923.32,14470.51 "Fedora 23",14592.77,14321.33,14120.6 "CentOS 7 1511",14955.25,14807.97,14758.34 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",14973.11,14838.88,14977.01 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",15039.48,15161.49,15116.84 "Clear Linux 5700",14716.7,14954.05,14872.75 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",242.73,245.04,245.17 "Fedora 23",236.08,235.43,236.01 "CentOS 7 1511",245.24,245.3,242.64 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",245.66,244.32,243.19 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",243.44,241.82,241.73 "Clear Linux 5700",232.26,233.76,232.25 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.5090589523315,9.3245859146118,9.3898689746857 "Fedora 23",9.3991510868073,9.7280540466309,9.2855429649353 "CentOS 7 1511",10.091048955917,9.5767040252686,9.5502121448517 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",9.2989859580994,9.3909950256348,9.1686549186707 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.8995389938354,9.9009728431702,9.9198839664459 "Fedora 23",9.6553630828857,9.646096944809,9.6873137950897 "CentOS 7 1511",9.9748129844666,9.9340531826019,9.8518187999725 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",9.8778049945831,9.8993561267853,9.8459980487823 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",9.5549039840698,9.4586050510406,9.4728231430054 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",8082.1,8183,8095.8 "Fedora 23",8203.59,8012.3,7865.62 "CentOS 7 1511",8205.19,7614.56,8168.9,8177.15,8148.16 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",8277.69,8244.15,8074.86 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",8377.07,8138.5,8381.91 "Clear Linux 5700",8261.79,8141.28,8380.39 "x264 2015-11-02 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",184.98,185.61,185.91,184.81,185.64 "Fedora 23",187.12,187.39,187.33,187.14,187.38 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",184.86,184.87,187.94,183.53,186.16 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",187.7,188.7,188.31,190.06,186.49 "Clear Linux 5700",183.33,187.05,187.72,185.94,185.85 "PBZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",9.3378269672394,9.3777949810028,9.4442141056061 "Ubuntu 15.10",9.4549400806427,9.5395228862762,9.3960700035095 "Fedora 23",9.4661660194397,9.6662120819092,9.3705360889435 "OpenSSL 1.0.1g - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",598.6,596.9,597 "Fedora 23",597.3,595.2,594 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",600.8,600.2,599.8 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",597.2,595.1,595.5 "Clear Linux 5700",594.8,595,594.8 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",23.537,23.515,23.49 "Ubuntu 15.10",23.517,23.507,23.47 "Fedora 23",23.522,23.547,23.546 "CentOS 7 1511",23.589,23.61,23.611 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",23.621,23.599,23.61 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",23.477,23.465,23.594 "Clear Linux 5700",23.513,23.508,23.507 "Redis 3.0.1 - Test: SET", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",1661129.62,1584786.12,1745200.62,1779359.5,1715265.88,1754386 "Ubuntu 15.10",1689189.12,1697792.88,1858736.12,1569858.62,1620745.62,1574803.12 "Fedora 23",1547987.5,1652892.5,1589825.12 "CentOS 7 1511",1594896.38,1733102.12,1470588.25,1453488.38,1782531.25,1763668.5 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",1851851.75,1773049.62,1851851.75 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",1712328.75,1745200.62,1675041.88 "Clear Linux 5700",1485884.12,2096436.12,2132196,1490313,2092050.25,2049180.25 "PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 - Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",3054.848246,2762.324158,3082.562446,3235.824539,2701.092718,3118.873507 "Fedora 23",2362.093053,2399.011976,2981.284102,2600.494242,2444.265307,2596.984607 "CentOS 7 1511",1794.208594,1771.406605,1853.156715 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",2424.347835,2622.172766,2624.356326,2575.94178,2471.887904,2525.032424 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",1622.776296,1849.250296,2348.96087,1723.280233,1744.092308,1792.125171 "Clear Linux 5700",2424.910793,2482.696224,2579.278727 "GnuPG - Linux 4.3 Package File Encryption", Lower Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",14.235662937164,14.273878097534,14.234210968018 "Ubuntu 15.10",14.293209791183,14.348249912262,14.190736055374 "Fedora 23",14.028552055359,14.459213018417,15.635313034058,16.276620864868,15.986927032471,15.149682998657 "CentOS 7 1511",1143.3505878448,736.16005897522,264.41202712059,631.16118812561,98.874531030655,26.261030912399 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",14.006317853928,14.017213106155,14.06596493721 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Ubuntu 15.10",412.3,404.94,409.26 "Fedora 23",283.22,242.03,281.12 "CentOS 7 1511",215.18,194.32,188.53 "Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS",401.98,363.18,342.56 "OpenSUSE Tumbleweed",301.83,264.45,249.24 "Clear Linux 5700",400.6,427.89,373.44