This page contains a performance comparison between ShEx and SHACL.
The experiment was run using the wiGen tool on 25th november 2015. The experiment was run using an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU at 2.93GHz (3Gb RAM) using Debian Linux.
The results of SHACL have been maintained in the page for historical reasons
The following table presents the results of validating a single node. SO means Stack Overflow
| Value | ||||||||
| Parameter | Processor | 1 | 5 | 10 | 50 | 100 | 500 | 1000 |
| Countries | ShEx | 228 | 166 | 217 | 147 | 146 | 147 | 230 |
| SHACL | 4999 | 3964 | 4149 | 3166 | 3591 | 3561 | 4581 | |
| Datasets | ShEx | 228 | 188 | 155 | 202 | 129 | 213 | 295 |
| SHACL | 4999 | 3940 | 3745 | 4168 | 4210 | 3281 | 3133 | |
| Organizations | ShEx | 228 | 278 | 310 | 719 | 940 | 5437 | 39496 |
| SHACL | 4999 | 4592 | 4445 | 4237 | 5896 | 6169 | 10121 | |
| Observations | ShEx | 228 | 315 | 722 | 1417 | 2935 | 57655 | 486240 |
| SHACL | 4999 | SO | SO | SO | SO | SO | SO | |
The following table presents the performance results when we evaluate all the nodes.
| Value | ||||||||
| Parameter | Processor | 1 | 5 | 10 | 50 | 100 | 500 | 1000 |
| Countries | ShEx | 489 | 492 | 376 | 441 | 767 | 8508 | 54994 |
| SHACL | 10678 | 9500 | 9188 | 6225 | 6619 | 9798 | 15382 | |
| Datasets | ShEx | 419 | 565 | 544 | 1200 | 2064 | 21287 | 120847 |
| SHACL | 10516 | 12112 | 11707 | 15119 | 16032 | 31397 | 36769 | |
| Organizations | ShEx | 241 | 367 | 465 | 842 | 761 | 7556 | 51728 |
| SHACL | 9768 | 7921 | 7647 | 8411 | 6322 | 9550 | 119196 | |
| Observations | ShEx | 263 | 589 | 478 | 2317 | 3091 | 96941 | 869709 |
| SHACL | 7550 | SO | SO | SO | SO | SO | SO | |