simdjson-java

A Java version of simdjson - a JSON parser using SIMD instructions, based on the paper Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second by Geoff Langdale and Daniel Lemire.

This implementation is still missing several features available in simdsjon. For example:

• Support for Unicode characters
• UTF-8 validation
• Full support for parsing floats
• Support for 512-bit vectors

Code Sample

byte[] json = loadTwitterJson();

SimdJsonParser parser = new SimdJsonParser();
JsonValue jsonValue = simdJsonParser.parse(json, json.length);
Iterator<JsonValue> tweets = jsonValue.get("statuses").arrayIterator();
while (tweets.hasNext()) {
    JsonValue tweet = tweets.next();
    JsonValue user = tweet.get("user");
    if (user.get("default_profile").asBoolean()) {
        System.out.println(user.get("screen_name").asString());
    }
}

Benchmarks

To run the JMH benchmarks, execute the following command:

./gradlew jmh

Tests

To run the tests, execute the following command:

./gradlew test

Performance

This section presents a performance comparison of different JSON parsers available as Java libraries. The benchmark used the twitter.json dataset, and its goal was to measure the throughput (ops/s) of parsing and finding all unique users with a default profile.

Note that simdjson-java is still missing several features (mentioned in the introduction), so the following results may not reflect its real performance.

Environment:

• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz
• OS: Ubuntu 23.04, kernel 6.2.0-23-generic
• Java: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Temurin-20.0.1+9

Library	Version	Throughput (ops/s)
simdjson-java	-	1450.951
simdjson-java (padded)	-	1505.227
jackson	2.15.2	504.562
fastjson2	2.0.35	590.743
jsoniter	0.9.23	384.664

To reproduce the benchmark results, execute the following command:

./gradlew jmh -Pjmh.includes='.*ParseAndSelectBenchmark.*'