Which is the fastest?

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

Result

Last update: 2017-10-04

OS: Darwin (version: 17.0.0, arch: x86_64)
CPU Cores: 8

Ranking (Framework)

1. router_cr (crystal)
2. raze (crystal)
3. japronto (python)
4. fasthttprouter (go)
5. iron (rust)
6. nickel (rust)
7. rocket (rust)
8. kemal (crystal)
9. echo (go)
10. gorilla_mux (go)
11. iris (go)
12. aspnetcore (csharp)
13. plug (elixir)
14. phoenix (elixir)
15. vapor (swift)
16. perfect (swift)
17. kitura (swift)
18. sanic (python)
19. akkahttp (scala)
20. clusterexpress (node)
21. express (node)
22. roda (ruby)
23. sinatra (ruby)
24. rails (ruby)

Ranking (Language)

1. crystal (router_cr)
2. python (japronto)
3. go (fasthttprouter)
4. rust (iron)
5. csharp (aspnetcore)
6. elixir (plug)
7. swift (vapor)
8. scala (akkahttp)
9. node (clusterexpress)
10. ruby (roda)

All frameworks

Language (Runtime)	Framework (Middleware)	Max [sec]	Min [sec]	Ave [sec]
ruby	rails	151.196547	150.960227	151.073975
ruby	sinatra	43.854565	43.581662	43.664177
ruby	roda	15.892388	15.811082	15.844165
crystal	kemal	3.547369	3.075486	3.444593
crystal	router_cr	2.486733	2.284032	2.344394
crystal	raze	2.490715	2.399881	2.456708
go	echo	3.785530	3.511024	3.647536
go	gorilla_mux	3.970627	3.522344	3.686079
go	iris	3.938069	3.583784	3.776195
go	fasthttprouter	2.824961	2.686712	2.731345
rust	iron	2.865915	2.743227	2.812815
rust	nickel	2.877018	2.823066	2.858988
rust	rocket	3.276701	3.145324	3.204920
node	express	13.961471	13.668522	13.791606
node	clusterexpress	8.187491	7.431857	7.656550
elixir	plug	4.895296	4.368241	4.727784
elixir	phoenix	5.307217	4.877070	5.116376
swift	vapor	5.613291	5.250472	5.479300
swift	perfect	5.703425	5.575321	5.648020
swift	kitura	6.678699	6.379810	6.503248
scala	akkahttp	8.330310	7.047381	7.584030
csharp	aspnetcore	3.959679	3.799744	3.860993
python	sanic	7.359875	6.208559	6.735841
python	japronto	2.639756	2.590362	2.610999

Current target frameworks (middlewares)

• Ruby
  • Rails
  • Sinatra
  • Roda
• Crystal
  • Kemal
  • raze
  • router.cr
• Go
  • Echo
  • gorilla-mux
  • iris
  • 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 or frameworks.

The rule

We 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 under WIP. 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
• OvermindDL1 OvermindDL1 - maintainer

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