A benchmark comparing performance of async/await in different HTTP frameworks
- Express v4.16
- Koa v2.5 + koa-router v7.4
- Fastify v1.8
- Hapi v17.5
- LoopBack v3.21
- LoopBack next: core v0.11; repository v0.14; rest v0.19
MacBookPro Mid 2015 Processor: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
| framework | rps |
|---|---|
| hapi | 6029 |
| fastify | 7926 |
| koa | 7305 |
| express | 5778 |
| loopback | 3072 |
| loopback-next | 2778 |
Time to handle a request in milliseconds.
| framework | latency |
|---|---|
| hapi | 1.14 |
| fastify | 0.93 |
| koa | 1.02 |
| express | 1.2 |
| loopback | 2.69 |
| loopback-next | 3.16 |
Async/await is not the bottleneck!
Install and start MongoDB on your local machine.
Create Products collection in async-benchmark db,
create few sample records:
$ mongo
> use async-benchmark
switched to db async-benchmark
> db.products.insert({ean: 9780471117094, name: 'Pen'})
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> db.products.insert({ean: 4006381333931, name: 'Pencil'})
WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })
> db.products.createIndex({ean: 1})
Install all dependencies.
$ npm install
Run the tests to verify the sample servers are working correctly.
$ npm test
Run the benchmark.
$ npm start