$ab -n 10000 -c 10  http://127.0.0.1:5984/blogdb/_view/couchdb-example-blog/recent?key=%222008-11-03T17:49:47Z%22
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
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Completed 8000 requests
Completed 9000 requests
Finished 10000 requests


Server Software:        CouchDB/0.9.0a718647-incubating
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            5984

Document Path:          /blogdb/_view/couchdb-example-blog/recent?key=%222008-11-03T17:49:47Z%22
Document Length:        317 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   9.703060 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      5040504 bytes
HTML transferred:       3170317 bytes
Requests per second:    1030.60 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       9.703 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.970 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          507.26 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.3      0      11
Processing:     2    9   7.5      9     237
Waiting:        0    7   6.9      7     215
Total:          3    9   7.5      9     237

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      9
  66%      9
  75%     10
  80%     10
  90%     11
  95%     12
  98%     14
  99%     16
 100%    237 (longest request)