Benchmarking Results

Reproducible, cold-start performance studies on real workloads, published in full with numbers and methodology included.

The index5 reports
01
AI Agents · SandboxesLiveAUG 2026

Agent Sandbox Benchmark: Nirvana vs GKE vs E2B

Nirvana recovered all 5,501 committed checkpoints on a brand-new pod after the compute was killed mid-write, sustains 18,733 durable checkpoints/s at matched 8 vCPU, releases idle compute in 1.5 s, and held 2.71 GiB/s flat through a 30-minute run.

Agent SandboxesGKEE2BQuirq
~1.5sto release

idle compute, against 9.6 s on GKE.

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02
AI Agents · Part 2LiveJUL 2026

LangChain Agent Benchmark: checkpoint writes

Part 2 of the LangChain agent benchmark — the write path. Checkpoints that fsync after every agent step, 100K commits, across 5 storage platforms. ABS finishes first in all 18 runs, with half the Postgres commit p99 at sustained scale.

LangChainPostgresRedisQdrant
24–28%faster

end-to-end at 100k checkpoints, every commit durable.

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03
AI Agents · Part 1LiveMAY 2026

LangChain Agent Benchmark: cold reads

Part 1 of the LangChain agent benchmark — the read path. Cold vector search and checkpoint loads across 5 storage platforms, 100K tasks, 1,000 agents. ABS finishes first at every scale tested.

LangChainQdrantPostgresRedis
14–17%faster

end-to-end task completion at every scale.

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04
Analytics · OLAPLiveMAY 2026

ClickHouse® Star Schema Benchmark (SSB): Nirvana × Altinity

13 SSB queries on single-node ClickHouse 25.8.16 (Altinity-managed) at SF=100 and SF=500. Selective queries land at 34–63 ms against a 3-billion-row table; the full-scan family sustains ~70M rows/sec from disk.

ClickHouseAltinitySSBOLAP
34ms

selective-query warm latency against a 3-billion-row table.

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05
Block StorageLiveMAR 2026

ClickBench: Nirvana ABS vs AWS EBS

43 OLAP queries under forced cold-read, raw FIO synthetic tests across a 16-VM cluster, and normalized price-performance against AWS gp3 and io2.

ClickBenchFIOPricing
10.5×faster

on cold-read analytical queries vs AWS gp3.

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