This performance comparison was done by TechEmpower, Inc. CA. They made the benchmark of many web application frameworks executing fundamental tasks such as JSON serialization, database access, and server-side template composition. Each framework is operating in a realistic production configuration. Results are captured on physical hardware. The test implementations are largely community-contributed and all source is available at the GitHub repository.

In the following tests, TechEmpower have measured the performance of several web application platforms, full-stack frameworks, and micro-frameworks (collectively, „frameworks“). For more information, read the introduction, motivation, and latest environment details.

Hardware

Peak: Dell R720xd dual Xeon E5-2660 v2 (40 HT cores) with 32 GB memory; database servers equipped with SSDs in RAID; switched 10-gigabit Ethernet

Platform

Current versions of: Linux, PHP-FPM, nginx on Linux, MySQL on Linux

Single query test

In this test, each request is processed by fetching a single row from a simple database table. That row is then serialized as a JSON response.

Best (bar chart)

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Multiple queries test

In this test, each request is processed by fetching multiple rows from a simple database table and serializing these rows as a JSON response. The test is run multiple times: testing 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 queries per request. All tests are run at 256 concurrency.

20-queries (bar)

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