postlight / lux-benchmarks

Lux-Benchmarks

Preface

This is a quick and dirty benchmark to show how Lux compares to other popular frameworks based on what you "out of the box". In other words, no performance optimizations have been made to any of these applications.

This benchmark is measured on a simple test of returning the first 25 records of an API resource and its relationship. Respectively Task and TaskList.

Note:

By no means am I an expert at benchmarks nor are benchmarks the most accurate way of measuring the quality of a framework.

If you see any thing fishy or would like to add anything to this repo, feel free to submit an issue or fork this repo and submit a PR.

Results

I have gotten the following results after running this benchmark 3 times and taking the average Requests/sec and Transfer/sec per each framework.

Framework	Requests Per Second	Transfer Per Second
Lux	902.12 ⭐	7.94MB ⭐
Loopback	763.82	1.67MB
Sails	174.96	1.15MB
Rails	68.17	536.55KB

Hardware:

MacBook Pro with a quad-core 2.6GHz i7 processor and 16GB of memory.

Contributing

Installation

Make sure you have the following:

• Node (>= 4.0)
• Lux (installed globally)
• MySQL (accessible on port 3306)

git clone https://github.com/postlight/lux-benchmarks
cd lux-benchmarks
npm install
cat fixtures/data.sql | mysql -u root -p

Running

Execute the following command to run the benchmarks.

npm start