DDS Touchstone is a framework for benchmarking Data Distribution Service (DDS) implementations. DDS is a standard supported by the Object Management Group (OMG), providing a data-centric publish-subscribe programming model for distributed systems.

DDS Touchstone is available as source code only. Its main characteristics are:

• A deployment, language, OS en vendor neutral benchmarking suite
• Measures and outputs roundtrip latencies and throughput numbers
• Supports creation of many different kinds of DDS scenarios
• Supports recording and replaying scenarios

The Touchstone release contains a user manual for a good introduction on how to use it. For a higher level overview, take a look at the videos embbeded in this website.