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Tigris is highly optimized for storing and retrieving small objects, offering significant performance advantages over other popular object storage solutions.

## Performance Highlights

Benchmarks comparing Tigris with AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 demonstrate that Tigris consistently delivers higher throughput and lower latency for small object workloads:

- **Sub-10ms** read latency
- **Sub-20ms** write latency
- **4x throughput** compared to AWS S3 for both read and write operations
- **20x throughput** compared to Cloudflare R2 for both read and write operations

## Why Tigris is Fast

Tigris employs several key strategies to accelerate small object workloads:

- **Inlining Small Objects:** Very small objects are inlined directly within their metadata records, which minimizes the I/O operations required for retrieval.
- **Key Coalescing:** Adjacent keys are coalesced to reduce storage fragmentation and overhead, improving data density and scan efficiency.
- **On-Disk Caching:** Frequently accessed ("hot") items are cached in a high-performance, on-disk cache backed by a Log-Structured Merge-tree (LSM), ensuring rapid access to popular data.

This efficiency allows you to use a single, unified object store for a wide range of object sizes, from very small payloads to large multi-gigabyte blobs, without performance trade-offs.

## Benchmark Sections

| Section | Description |
| --- | --- |
| [Performance Metrics](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/metrics/index.html) | Detailed methodology and benchmark setup |
| [Comparison: AWS S3](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/aws-s3/index.html) | Head-to-head performance comparison with AWS S3 |
| [Comparison: Cloudflare R2](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/cloudflare-r2/index.html) | Head-to-head performance comparison with R2 |
| [Model Training on Tigris](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/model-training/index.html) | ML training with TAG caching proxy on Tigris |
| [Benchmark Summary](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/summary/index.html) | Complete results and conclusions |

## Reproducibility

You can run these benchmarks yourself using our [ycsb-benchmarks](https://github.com/tigrisdata-community/ycsb-benchmarks) repository, which contains the full configuration and instructions.

- [Performance Highlights](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/#performance-highlights/index.html)
- [Why Tigris is Fast](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/#why-tigris-is-fast/index.html)
- [Benchmark Sections](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/#benchmark-sections/index.html)
- [Reproducibility](/content/docs/overview/benchmarks/#reproducibility/index.html)