Benchmarks¶

Performance benchmarks comparing JoyfulJay with other network traffic feature extraction tools.

Overview¶

JoyfulJay prioritizes feature richness over raw speed, extracting 387 features compared to 38-112 for other tools.

Tool	Features	Throughput	Python Native
JoyfulJay	387	3.6 MB/s	Yes
Tranalyzer2	112	1-10 Gbps	No
CICFlowMeter	84	~50 MB/s	No
NFStream	38	38 MB/s	Yes

Documentation¶

Benchmark Protocol - Exact methodology for reproducing benchmarks
Performance Comparison - Detailed comparison with other tools

Quick Results¶

Feature Extraction Trade-off¶

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Speed vs Features
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Tranalyzer2     Speed: ████████████████████  1-10 Gbps
                Features: ████  112

JoyfulJay       Speed: █  3.6 MB/s
                Features: ████████████████████  387

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Choose Tranalyzer2 for SPEED, JoyfulJay for FEATURES

Running Benchmarks¶

Bash

# Install benchmark dependencies
pip install -e ".[benchmark]"

# Run comprehensive benchmarks
python benchmarks/comprehensive_benchmark.py

# Results are written to benchmarks/results/

See Benchmark Protocol for detailed methodology.