bitcoinjs/bitcoinjs-server — Issue #63: Performance issues with MongoDB after about 100k blocks
Author: jpierre
Created: 2012-02-08 10:44:52+00:00
State: open

Due to another bug I'm forced to use bitcoinjs with MongoDB. Performance is a big problem. Even against a local instance of bitcoind, the download of the blockchain starts but becomes quite slow after about 100k blocks. It's been downloading the blockchain during eight hours from localhost, and I'm still about 10k blocks away from the end.

Performance downloading the first 50k blocks is pretty high, at about 500 blocks per 1.5 seconds. It seems to decrease exponentially the longer the blockchain is.