ferdinandrosario / which_is_the_fastest

Which is the fastest web framework?

Which is the fastest?

Measuring response times for each framework(middleware). Each framework has to have two features; routing and parsing path parameters.

Result

Current target frameworks(middlewares)

• Ruby
  • Rails
  • Sinatra
  • Roda
• Crystal
  • Kemal
  • router.cr
• Go
  • Echo
  • gorilla-mux
  • fasthttprouter
• Rust
  • IRON
  • nickel.rs
  • Rocket (nightly)
• node
  • express
  • express/cluster
• Elixir
  • Plug
  • Phoenix
• Swift
  • Vapor
  • Perfect
  • Kitura
• Scala
  • Akka-Http (Routing DSL)
• C#
  • ASP.NET Core
• Python
  • sanic
  • japronto

See Development section when you want to add new languages for frameworks.

The rule

I want to know the response time, not a usability. So full-stack framework is at a disadvantage.

• Each server has no special logics.
• Each server's executable is named as server_[Lauguage]_[Framework]. (For example, server_ruby_sinatra)
• There are only 3 routes
  • GET '/' return status code 200 with empty body
  • GET '/user/:id' return status code 200 with the id
  • POST '/user' return status code 200 with empty body

Installation

Required environment -> See Current target frameworks(middlewares)

By using Neph

Neph is a modern command line job processor that can be substitute for make command.

To compile servers and benchmarker,

> neph

For each language,

> neph -j ruby

For each framework,

> neph -j rails

See neph.yml

By using make

To compile servers and benchmarker,

> make

For each language,

> make ruby

For each framework,

> make rails

Usage

You can take a benchmark by

> bin/benchmarker

For each language

> bin/benchmarker ruby

For each framework

> bin/benchmarker rails

For comparison (Comparing rails, kemal and router.cr in this example)

> bin/benchmarker rails crystal

If you take it manually, you can run each server by

> bin/server_[Language]_[Framework]

and run client by

> time bin/client

You can set # of threads and # of the loops of the request(there are 3 requests in a loop) by

> time bin/client -t 16 -r 1000

In the above example, 16 threads requests 1000 * 3 times. So 48000 requests are sent in total.

Using Docker

Setup servers by using docker is in work in progress. Currently, crystal and ruby servers are supported. For example

docker-compose up rails

Then you can run your client by

time ./bin/client

Development

• Give me PR when you want to add other web frameworks
• Give me PR when you can tuning each framework (under the rule)

Where should I modify when adding new framework

• /[language]/[framework]/[codes] <- Project iteself
• benchmarker/benchmarker.cr <- Adding it as a target to
• README.md <- Adding it as a target framework of the list
• Makefile
• neph.yml (optional)

Anyway, you don't have to care about details since maintainer can fix them after merging it. The result will be updated by maintainer.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/tbrand/which_is_the_fastest/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• tbrand Taichiro Suzuki - creator, maintainer