Okay sounds good! I’ll start a v2 branch and do some work on it. Can you
contact me offline and let me know how I can get a copy of the prod
database to help with development and test migrations?

Thanks
Wes

On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 12:57 Rok Mihevc <[email protected]> wrote:

> As per my discussion with the Velox team in March, they weren't using
> Conbench at the time and had no plans to migrate back.
>
> I never reported on the Conbench/Voltron migration to the mailing list, so
> this is a good opportunity to do so:
> - In November, it became clear Voltron Data would shut down its CI and
> benchmarking infrastructure
> - Using the donated AWS credits [1] and with the help of Mike Wendt I moved
> conbench infra to the new AWS account and backfilled benchmarks to cover
> the missing commits
> - Raul and I moved CUDA runners to the new AWS account
> - Moved doc-preview, Parquet benchmarking/testing datasets, the nightly
> dashboard, etc. to S3 with help from Nic, Jacob, and Raul
> - Conbench gradually stabilized, but benchmarks occasionally fail due to
> dependency issues. We don't really track these, but Nic and I typically fix
> them.
> - The database design still makes the web views slow, and we discussed
> about dropping some history to speed them up
> - AWS benchmark runner-minutes consume nearly the entire donated AWS quota.
> Discussion on how to optimize this and what exactly we need from benchmarks
> as a project occasionally comes up on Zulip, and I expect that once it
> crystallizes we'll bring it to the ML as well.
> - Things are now stable enough that we can discuss redesigning toward a
> more stable and sustainable setup
>
> Best,
> Rok
>
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/q33oofy2v3zpg9s9l8o0w68rmjr3ocsv
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM Jacob Wujciak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > +1 improving conbench and the orchestration would free up aws credits and
> > more importantly the time taken to fix outrages!
> >
> > Velox used to use conbench but through a VD provided instance. I haven't
> > seen any movement to set up an independent instance.
> >
> >
> > Rok Mihevc <[email protected]> schrieb am Do., 4. Juni 2026, 16:38:
> >
> > > Hi Wes,
> > >
> > > Conbench is now at conbench.arrow-dev.org. I forked all repos to
> > > arctosalliance github org in case VD deleted them on the way out.
> > > Historical RDS db is preserved in the AWS account we migrated Arrow's
> CI
> > > infra to. It's supported by donated AWS credits.
> > > For orchestration buildkite.com/apache-arrow is still used and I even
> > got
> > > the old M1 mac mini from Mike. It's now in my rack running benchmarks
> > > again.
> > >
> > > That said current design of the orchestration layer, api server and db
> is
> > > somewhat costly and brittle. Downtime and adhoc fixes are common and I
> > was
> > > thinking about refactoring it somewhat to make it more maintainable.
> > >
> > > 1) If things become more maintainable and long term stable that'd be
> > great.
> > > I'm happy to collaborate on this.
> > > 2) I'm only aware of arrow and arrow-go currently using it.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Rok
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM Wes McKinney <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I saw that conbench.ursa.dev has been down and I had a need to set
> up
> > > > some continuous project benchmarks, and was interested in doing
> > > > development on Conbench (well, having my agents do development on
> > > > Conbench), and was interested in the following:
> > > >
> > > > 1) is there interest in migrating the historical Arrow conbench data
> > > > to a new server, has that been preserved somewhere? I'll probably
> > > > rewrite the conbench backend in Go and give it a client CLI for
> > > > submitting new data or querying old data.
> > > >
> > > > 2) are there other users of conbench (conbench/conbench) that anyone
> > > > is aware of? I'd be done doing in-situ development in that repository
> > > > or setting up a conbench-v2 project.
> > > >
> > > > No particular urgency but if anyone has opinions let me know!
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > Wes
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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