TfT Performance: Roam Research

Our first competitor enters the stage. It's Roam Research - one of the veterans of the Tools for Thought scene. Let's get ready to rumble...

Jan 04, 2022

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Hej,

And welcome to the Benchmark Results of Roam Research. Roam Research is considered by many to be the gold standard in tools for thought and has a large following.

If you are new here, you may want to read:

Gödel's

TfT Performance: Methodology

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

4 years ago · 2 likes · Alexander Rink

and

Gödel's

TfT Performance: Machine Room

Hej and welcome to this small interlude, where I talk about the task course, test data, test environment, and some pitfalls with formats and import limits before we dive into the first results. Preface I've been thinking a lot about how to best evaluate the performance of the tools. In everyday use, you rarely come up against limits. And whether an applic…

4 years ago · 1 comment · Alexander Rink

before you dive into this article.

Side note

I created the following videos essentially for me to measure the times quickly. I've linked them here to prove the results, but they're probably pretty dull despite being partly time-lapse.

All the diagrams I show here use the same color scheme and order—Blue for the 2,000 data set, turquoise for the 5,000, and green for the 10,000.

And please remember: We focus here exclusively on the performance figures of some operations. These may be entirely irrelevant for your use case. Also, the numbers say nothing about the tool's other capabilities - so please take the results with a grain of salt.

Importing Files

We start our benchmark by importing the files. If you look at the videos, you will see that I had twice an out…

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