Standalone DB - Linux

These results should be viewed as guidelines and not performance guarantees, since there are many variables that affect performance (file set, network configurations, hardware characteristics, etc.). If throughput is important to your implementation, OPSWAT recommends site-specific benchmarking before implementing a production solution.

Environment

Using AWS environment with the specification below:

MetaDefender Core

OSAWS instance typevCPUMemory (GB)Network bandwidth (Gbps)Disk typeBenchmark
Ubuntu 24.04c5.4xlarge1632Up to 10SSDAmazon EC2 c5.4xlarge - Geekbench

Client tool

A simple tool written in Python to collect files in a designated folder and submit requests to MetaDefender Core.

This client tool is running on CentOS 7

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OSAWS instance typevCPUMemory (GB)Network bandwidth (Gbps)Disk type
CentOS 7c5.4xlarge1632Up to 10SSD

Dataset

Detailed information of dataset below will be used for testing:

File categoryFile typeNumber of filesTotal size (MB)Average file size (MB)
AdobePDF370385 MB1.0 MB
ExecutableEXE45309.5 MB6.9 MB
MSI1545.75 MB3.1 MB
ImageBMP80515 MB6.4 MB
JPG420237.5 MB0.6 MB
PNG345169 MB0.5 MB
MediaMP3135865 MB6.4 MB
MP450500 MB10.0 MB
OfficeDOCX235190 MB0.8 MB
DOC225486 MB2.2 MB
PPTX365860 MB2.4 MB
PPT3551950 MB5.5 MB
XLSX340283.5 MB0.8 MB
XLS335284.5 MB0.8 MB
TextCSV100236 MB2.4 MB
HTML107576 MB0.1 MB
TXT500210 MB0.4 MB
ArchiveZIP

Compressed files: 10

Extracted files: 270

Compressed size: 125.5 MB

Extracted size: 156.5 MB

Avg compressed size: 12.6 MB

Avg extracted size: 0.6 MB

Summary (compressed)50007728.5 MB1.55 MB average file size
Summary (extracted)52607759.5 MB1.48 MB average file size

Product Information

Product versions:

  • MetaDefender Core version 5.18.0
  • Engines:
    • Metascan 5: Ahnlab, Bitdefender, ClamAV, ESET, K7
    • Metascan 10: Metascan 5 + Avira, Varist, IKARUS, Quick Heal, TACHYON
    • Metascan MAX: Metascan 10 + Lionic, CMC, CrowdStrike Falcon ML, Aurora, Trellix, NANOV, RocketCyber, Sophos, Webroot SMD, Xvirus Anti-Malware
    • Deep CDR: 7.8.0
    • Proactive DLP: 3.2.0
    • Archive: 7.8.0
    • File type analysis: 7.8.0
    • File-based vulnerability assessment: 4.57-236
    • Adaptive Sandbox: 3.0.0

MetaDefender Core settings

General settings

  • Turn off data retention
  • Turn off engine update
  • Max file size: 99999999

Archive extraction

  • Max recursion level: 99999999
  • Max number of extracted files: 99999999
  • Max total size of extracted files: 99999999
  • Timeout: 10 minutes
  • Handle archive extraction task as Failed: true
    • Extracted partially: true

Metascan

  • Scan timeout: 10 minutes
  • Per engine scan timeout: 1 minutes

Adaptive Sandbox

  • Max file size: 18446744073709 MB (max)
  • Timeout: 86400 (max)

Performance test results

Summary

MetaDefender Core with single engine (technology):

Performance Report - Single Engine Standalone Linux
Use case Scan duration
(minutes)
Throughput
(objects/hour)
Avg. processing time
(seconds/object)
Avg./Max CPU usage
(%)
Avg./Max RAM usage
(%)
Avg. Network speed
(KB/s)
Metascan 5 9.1 838,045.8 0.004 91.0/92.1 37.3/39.4 12,744.6
Metascan 10 17.3 442,200.4 0.008 97.0/98.7 39.8/42.7 10,470.2
Metascan MAX 37.5 203,468.8 0.018 99.1/99.9 81.8/83.3 6,422.8
Deep CDR 22.9 333,893.4 0.011 80.5/87.2 53.9/64.1 9,670.2
Proactive DLP 12.1 630,635.8 0.006 59.4/63.2 52.6/57.1 12,796.8
Vulnerability 7.8 981,594.7 0.004 96.8/97.1 51.6/52.0 14,476.6
Embedded Sandbox 192.1 39,731.1 0.091 56.2/85.4 66.9/79.7 3,349.8

MetaDefender Core with common engine packages:

Performance Report - Common Engine Linux
Use case Scan duration
(minutes)
Throughput
(objects/hour)
Avg. processing time
(seconds/object)
Avg./Max CPU usage
(%)
Avg./Max RAM usage
(%)
Avg. Network speed
(KB/s)
Metascan 5
+ Deep CDR
24.5 311,005.4 0.012 81.9/87.0 55.0/62.0 8,033.8
Metascan 5
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
29.6 257,708.2 0.014 80.4/90.4 51.7/61.6 7,739.2
Metascan 5
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability
30.3 252,073.4 0.014 84.1/92.1 78.2/88.9 6,831.9
Metascan 5
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability + Embedded Sandbox
203.3 37,542.2 0.096 66.5/89.7 72.4/83.5 3,251.1
Metascan 10
+ Deep CDR
29.5 258,707.7 0.014 91.2/99.7 58.0/68.1 7,475
Metascan 10
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
35.1 217,550.0 0.017 90.1/98.5 67.8/75.5 6,309.6
Metascan 10
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability
34.5 221,368 0.016 95.2/99.9 70.1/74.4 7,050.6
Metascan 10
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability + Embedded Sandbox
210.5 36,250.2 0.099 68.1/97.1 65.9/79.8 3,526.4
Metascan MAX
+ Deep CDR
46.9 162,667.6 0.022 99.6/99.9 82.9/87.9 5,433
Metascan MAX
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
51.6 147,806 0.024 97.6/99.9 87.7/95.1 5,888
Metascan MAX
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability
54.1 140,976.8 0.026 98.3/99.9 84.7/91.4 5,038.7
Metascan MAX
+ Deep CDR
+ Proactive DLP
+ Vulnerability + Embedded Sandbox
216.2 35,293.7 0.102 64.8/99.9 60.4/70.1 2,699

System resource utilization charts

MetaDefender Core with Metascan 10 + Deep CDR + Proactive DLP + Vulnerability:

Utilization charts
CPU usage
Memory usage
Network usage

Disk usage

MetaDefender Core with Metascan MAX + Deep CDR + Proactive DLP + Vulnerability:

Utilization charts
CPU usage
Memory usage
Network usage

Disk usage
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