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Real world performance

Demis Bellot edited this page May 7, 2013 · 14 revisions

We've previously graphed comprehensive 3rd Party benchmarks and a couple of our own at: servicestack.net/benchmarks/.

We'll also maintain a list of external benchmark results here that others have been experiencing to give you an idea of the type of performance you can expect from real-world usage:

EF & JSON.NET                         2300ms
EF [AsNoTracking] & JSON.NET           973ms
EF [AsNoTracking] & ServiceStack       973ms
Simple.Data & JSON.NET                1598ms
Simple.Data & ServiceStack             933ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite & JSON.NET        405ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite & ServiceStack    245ms
ServiceStack                 9615ms
WebApi                      30607ms

GitHub project for the benchmarks are at: https://github.com/anilmujagic/ServiceBenchmark

ServiceStack                    19s
WCF Data Services (Optimized)   28s
WCF Data Services               48s

One thing that I was completely surprised by today was the performance of the open source ServiceStack.NET frameworks. Even with the performance tuned release of JSON.NET I found that ServiceStack.Text beat it by a rediculous margin. It serialises 2x faster and deserialises 4x faster.

Redis (Cygwin)                254ms
Redis (Cygwin + fsync)        543ms
Raven DB                     2983ms


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  12. Use Cases
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  13. Performance
    1. Real world performance
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