Table 1. Speed comparison of database search programs: time taken to search 4174 queries of the Dickeya solani benchmark.
| Program | Hits | Cores | Time (s) | Relative speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| verifast | 100 | 16 | 62 | 5903 |
| fast | 100 | 16 | 65 | 5631 |
| verifast | 500 | 16 | 111 | 3298 |
| verifast | 1000 | 16 | 170 | 2153 |
| fast | 500 | 16 | 178 | 2056 |
| LAMBDA | 500 | 16 | 216 | 1695 |
| slow | 100 | 16 | 235 | 1558 |
| fast | 1000 | 16 | 324 | 1130 |
| LAST | 1000 | 16 a | 327 | 1119 |
| slow | 500 | 16 | 406 | 902 |
| DIAMOND | 1000 | 16 | 446 | 821 |
| slow | 1000 | 16 | 612 | 598 |
| verislow | 500 | 16 | 624 | 587 |
| verislow | 1000 | 16 | 792 | 462 |
| verifast | 1000 | 1 | 1009 | 363 |
| UBLAST b | 1000 | 16 a | 1310 | 279 |
| RAPSEARCH2 | 1000 | 16 | 1469 | 249 |
| LAMBDA | 500 | 1 | 2052 | 178 |
| LAST | 1000 | 1 | 2957 | 124 |
| fast | 1000 | 1 | 3297 | 111 |
| SANSc | 1000 | 1 | 3809 | 96 |
| BLAT b | 1000 | 1 | 4307 | 85 |
| slow | 1000 | 1 | 5015 | 73 |
| verislow | 1000 | 1 | 7094 | 52 |
| RAPSEARCH2 | 1000 | 1 | 18761 | 20 |
| UBLAST b | 1000 | 1 | 28399 | 13 |
| BLAST | 1000 | 16a | 32149 | 11 |
| BLAST | 1000 | 1 | 366046 | 1 |
aGNUparallel.
bDatabase split to chunks (UBLAST: 19, BLAT: 5) due to program's size limit.
cSerial implementation (9).