Solace Reveals Test Results for Guaranteed Messaging Solution

Solace Systems (News - Alert), specializing in high-speed, low-latency content networking systems, announced the results of recent tests conducted on its Guaranteed Messaging Solution with the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC).

 

The testing deducted that a single high-availability pair of Solace routers which were configured for guaranteed message delivery were able to process and deliver nearly 100,000 messages per second with sub-millisecond latency and zero message loss.

 

Solace employs a patented hardware approach to guaranteed messaging. This provides high throughput at low, consistent latencies. STAC conducted tests on different conditions with message rates ranging from 2,000 to 100,000 messages per second.

 

STAC measured latency statistics like minimum, mean, median, 99th percentile, 99.9th percentile and maximum figures.

 

Different message rates were taken into consideration besides testing producer/consumer numbers with a 600-byte payload. This is a size consistent with messages which are large and seen usually in financial order management applications.

 

“The goal of these tests was to evaluate the Solace solution in a typical trading configuration under heavy guaranteed message loads and in the face of common exception scenarios like loss and recovery of client connections,” said Peter Lankford, STAC’s director.

 

“In all of the steady-state tests we conducted, Solace demonstrated sub-millisecond guaranteed messaging latency up through the 99.9th percentile, with no message loss. During recovery from a significant client outage, the 99.9th percentile latency experienced by clients that had stayed connected was slightly above one millisecond,” added Lankford.

 
Guaranteed messaging finds applications in several front and back-office applications related to order flow, compliance and archival, complex event processing and data synchronization. Solace’s content routers can provide this capability in hardware with additional blades. This ensures ultra-low latency reliable messaging, as well as content routing and transformation.

 

Ralph Frankel, Solace’s CTO, financial services, explained, “These results clearly demonstrate that hardware-based infrastructure can offer competitive advantage and cost savings while overcoming the throughput and latency limitations plaguing the guaranteed messaging software at the heart of order management systems and other critical back-office applications.”