Which is the fastest?

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

Result

Last update: 2018-01-10

OS: Darwin (version: 17.2.0, arch: x86_64)
CPU Cores: 8

Ranking (Framework)

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

Ranking (Language)

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

All frameworks

Language (Runtime)	Framework (Middleware)	Max [sec]	Min [sec]	Ave [sec]
ruby	rails	161.079991	160.341164	160.664641
ruby	sinatra	45.534552	45.326070	45.378119
ruby	roda	16.244110	16.204136	16.220350
crystal	kemal	3.292682	3.157299	3.252980
crystal	router_cr	2.552623	2.471256	2.516766
crystal	raze	2.777100	2.665155	2.735574
go	echo	4.159959	4.011258	4.077308
go	gorilla_mux	4.170352	3.909323	4.036364
go	iris	4.348133	3.864387	4.073871
go	fasthttprouter	3.016682	2.886777	2.962532
rust	iron	3.023135	2.837906	2.918141
rust	nickel	2.818330	2.780301	2.803500
rust	rocket	3.556692	3.363295	3.426910
node	express	12.429907	11.482538	11.783619
node	clusterexpress	7.884909	6.594599	6.911125
elixir	plug	4.654937	4.269527	4.546351
elixir	phoenix	4.933707	4.788846	4.854297
swift	vapor	5.561565	5.325290	5.412418
swift	perfect	5.634706	5.352592	5.545727
swift	kitura	6.652122	6.514098	6.582017
scala	akkahttp	9.114887	7.183424	7.819570
csharp	aspnetcore	4.099906	3.747440	3.849951
python	sanic	6.438378	5.505323	5.748179
python	japronto	2.857492	2.797253	2.827124
objc	criollo	34.878167	23.799794	26.548463

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
• Objective-C
  • Criollo

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

The rule

We want to know the response time (routing 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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