Small File Packing Benchmarks

Up to 1,042Γ— faster container startup through SFP technology. One inode per container, regardless of file count.

1042Γ—
Max Speedup
99%
Size Reduction
50+
Containers Tested
1
Inode Per Container

πŸ“Š Benchmark Results by Category

πŸ—„οΈ Databases 10 containers
741Γ—
Best Speedup
99%
Max Reduction
πŸ† MySQL: 741Γ— faster (22K files β†’ instant mount)
🌐 Web Servers 10 containers
240Γ—
Best Speedup
99%
Max Reduction
πŸ† Traefik v2.11: 240Γ— faster startup
πŸ’» Language Runtimes 12 containers
629Γ—
Best Speedup
99%
Max Reduction
πŸ† Rust: 629Γ— faster (statically linked)
πŸ”§ DevOps Tools 10 containers
1042Γ—
Best Speedup
57%
Avg Reduction
πŸ† Grafana: 1042Γ— faster (12K+ files)
πŸ“¨ Messaging 8 containers
0.91s
Fastest Start
21 MB
Smallest
πŸ† EMQX: Fastest startup Β· Mosquitto: Lightest (IoT)

πŸš€ SFP Technology Tiers

πŸ” Evaluation
90-day trial
See SFP in action
  • Read-only source access
  • Test environment deployment
  • Benchmark your workloads
  • Technical consultation
πŸ’Ό Pro
Contact for pricing
Production-ready optimization
  • SFP-as-a-Service conversion
  • Pre-built container catalog
  • Cryptographically signed images
  • Priority support
🏒 Enterprise
Custom pricing
Self-hosted deployment
  • Everything in Pro
  • On-premise ArmoredForge
  • Multi-cluster federation
  • SLA guarantees + dedicated support
Coming Soon
⚑ Enterprise Plus
Elite add-on
Teleportation-class infrastructure
  • Visual Transport Protocolβ„’
  • 7ΞΌs container handoffs
  • RDMA pre-copy streaming
  • Warm Pool orchestration

πŸ“œ Source Available License

Voltainer and ArmoredForge are licensed under the Armored Gate Public Source License (AGPSL) v2.0. All production use requires a commercial license. Learn more β†’

πŸ”¬ How SFP Works

Traditional containers extract thousands of files on startup. SFP packs everything into a single EROFS image with instant mount:

Metric Traditional SFP Improvement
nginx startup 832ms 6ms 139Γ—
MySQL startup 2,600ms 5ms 741Γ—
Filesystem inodes 2,220+ 1 99.95%↓
Image size (avg) 100MB 5MB 95%↓