Paper Info
Title
Comparative Performance Study of Lightweight Hypervisors Used in Container Environment
Abstract
Virtual Machines (VMs) are used extensively in cloud computing. The underlying hypervisor allows hardware resources to be split into multiple virtual units which enhances resource utilization. However, VMs with traditional architecture introduce heavy overhead and reduce application performance. Containers have been introduced to overcome this drawback, yet such a solution raises security concerns due to poor isolation. Lightweight hypervisors have been leveraged to strike a balance between performance and isolation. However, there has been no comprehensive performance comparison among them. To identify the best fit use case, we investigate the performance characteristics of Docker container, Kata containers, gVisor, Firecracker and QEMU/KVM by measuring the performance on disk storage, main memory, CPU, network, system call and startup time. In addition, we evaluate their performance of running Nginx web server and MySQL database management system. We use QEMU/KVM as an example of traditional VM, Docker as the standard container and the rest as the representatives of lightweight hypervisors. We compare and analyze the benchmarking results, discuss the possible implications, explain the trade-off each organization made and elaborate on the pros and cons of each architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.5220/0010440502150223
CLOSER: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES SCIENCE
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Lightweight Hypervisor, Container, Virtualization, Performance Evaluation
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guoqing Li100.34
Keichi Takahashi201.69
Kohei Ichikawa300.68
Hajimu Iida401.01
Pree Thiengburanathum500.34
Passakorn Phannachitta600.34