KVM vs KVM + Docker Docker on Debian 9.5 KVM Guest Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host: Processor: AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core @ 3.11GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (rel-1.11.1-0-g0551a4be2c-prebuilt.qemu-project.org BIOS), Memory: 3072MB, Disk: 59GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: bochsdrmfb OS: Clear Linux OS 24870, Kernel: 4.9.0-8-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.2.0 + Clang 6.0.1 + LLVM 6.0.1, File-System: overlayfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: container-other Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 131 |============================================= CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 13951 |=========================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 2943 |============================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 111381 |========================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 8606 |============================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 431.26 |========================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 24.56 |=========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 23.68 |=========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 26.35 |=========================================== FFmpeg 4.0.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 14.89 |=========================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 261 |============================================= Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 925933 |========================================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 671455 |========================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 9459 |============================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Debian 9 KVM + Docker Host . 8382 |============================================