Interlude: Obsidian vs. 100,000

During the past benchmarks, Obsidian has crushed the competition. So let's raise the bar and lead a 100,000-page army into battle.

Alexander Rink

Jan 14, 2022

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Today we’ll do a quick look into how Obsidian works with a really large amount of interconnected pages.

If you haven’t read about the Obsidian benchmark yet, you can do this here:

Gödel's

TfT Performance: Obsidian

Hej, And welcome to the Benchmark of Obsidian, made by the authors of Dynalist, based on Markdown files stored in local folders and backed by a big community with hundreds of themes and plugins. If you are new here, you may want to read about the methodology…

4 years ago · 1 like · 8 comments · Alexander Rink

If you haven’t read about the methodology before, you can do this here:

Gödel's

TfT Performance: Methodology

Introduction If you want to get realistic results from performance tests, you must create natural conditions. If you're going to compare different applications, you have to use the same data. I've chosen synthetic test data over a copy of one of my personal knowledge graphs to ensure this…

4 years ago · 5 likes · Alexander Rink

Importing the 100,000 pages was straightforward but took its time. While you could start working with Obsidian after a few minutes, building the complete index took more than two hours.

Here are some statistics:

Pages: 100,000
Paragraphs (Blocks): 853,409
Sentences: 14,555,418
Page Links: 1,873,962
Unique Links: 198,385
Words: 92,738,209

In the video, I show how it's like to work with such a large database afterward (it’s surprisingly well).

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