Future Roadmap
The Scalionix System Benchmark has been designed as a continuously evolving benchmarking platform.
While the current benchmark already covers a broad range of practical workloads, additional benchmark categories and ecosystem components are planned for future releases.
This chapter summarizes the currently envisioned development roadmap.
Additional Benchmark Categories
Future benchmark releases may introduce additional workload categories.
Examples currently under consideration include:
MessagePack
Evaluation of binary serialization performance.
Network Benchmark
- HTTP/2 request throughput
- HTTP/3 (QUIC) request throughput
- REST API performance
- WebSocket performance
Filesystem Extensions
- Additional storage durability modes
- Large directory traversal
- Mixed read/write workloads
Database Benchmarks
- SQLite
- LMDB
- RocksDB
Additional benchmark categories will be introduced only when they provide meaningful real-world performance information.
Expanded Compilation Benchmark
Future versions of the Compilation benchmark may include additional real-world projects.
Potential additions include:
- Larger Rust projects
- Additional C++ projects
- Optional Go projects
Compilation fixtures will continue to prioritize practical software projects over synthetic build workloads.
Hardware Support
Future hardware support may include:
- Additional ARM platforms
- ARM servers
- Threadripper reference systems
- EPYC servers
- Apple Silicon reference calibration
Additional reference platforms may become available through future scoring versions.
Global Ranking Service
The primary long-term objective is the public Global Ranking Service.
Planned capabilities include:
- Online benchmark submission
- Public leaderboards
- Hardware comparison
- Historical benchmark tracking
- Benchmark search
- Hardware classification
- Public benchmark profiles
The Global Ranking Service represents the natural extension of the benchmark ecosystem.
Continuous Benchmark Evolution
The benchmark will continue evolving as hardware evolves.
Future development priorities include:
- New workload categories
- Improved hardware detection
- Additional diagnostics
- Improved benchmark reporting
- Extended scoring analysis
Compatibility with historical benchmark reports will remain a primary objective.
Community Contributions
The benchmark architecture encourages community contributions.
Areas particularly suitable for contribution include:
- New benchmark categories
- Additional operating-system support
- Improved hardware collectors
- Benchmark validation
- Documentation improvements
All contributions should preserve deterministic benchmark behavior and long-term compatibility.
Long-Term Vision
The long-term objective of the Scalionix System Benchmark is to become a comprehensive, deterministic, open, and reproducible benchmarking platform suitable for professional hardware evaluation.
Rather than focusing on a single synthetic score, the benchmark aims to provide detailed insight into real-world workloads while maintaining a transparent scoring model and fully documented benchmark architecture.
The accompanying Global Ranking System is intended to complement this objective by enabling meaningful comparison of hardware platforms without compromising reproducibility or historical consistency.
Final Remarks
The Scalionix System Benchmark is the result of a design philosophy centered on determinism, transparency, reproducibility, and long-term maintainability.
Every benchmark category, scoring rule, report format, and architectural component has been designed to remain understandable, extensible, and stable across future benchmark generations.
As new hardware, operating systems, compilers, and workload types emerge, the benchmark is expected to evolve while preserving the compatibility and reproducibility of historical benchmark results.
The ultimate goal is not simply to measure performance, but to establish a trustworthy and open benchmarking ecosystem capable of serving developers, hardware enthusiasts, researchers, and organizations for many years to come.