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microbenchmarks

Benchmarking microframeworks.

Benchmarked microframeworks (in alfabetic order)

cuba
hobbit
hobbit-routes (Hobbit with routes! (A proof of concept))
sinatra

And of course, rack as the reference.

Platform

MacBook Air (Intel Core i5, 4GB RAM)
Thin web server
ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

Running the applications

There is a config.ru file in each directory with an application. Simply run:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rackup

Results

50 concurrent requests, 1_000 requests

$ ab -c 50 -n 1000 http://localhost:9292/

<table> <tr> <th>Microframework</th> <th>Request per second</th> <th>Time per request</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Rack</th> <th>1392.34 [#/sec] (mean)</th> <th>35.911 [ms] (mean)</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cuba</td> <td>1155.57 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>43.269 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit</td> <td>1376.90 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>36.314 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit with routes</td> <td>1134.86 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>44.058 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sinatra</td> <td>782.92 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>63.864 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> </table>

50 concurrent requests, 10_000 requests

$ ab -c 50 -n 10000 http://localhost:9292/

<table> <tr> <th>Microframework</th> <th>Request per second</th> <th>Time per request</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Rack</th> <th>1508.23 [#/sec] (mean)</th> <th>33.151 [ms] (mean)</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cuba</td> <td>1159.09 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>43.137 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit</td> <td>1447.53 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>34.542 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit with routes</td> <td>1326.35 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>37.697 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sinatra</td> <td>971.33 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>51.476 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> </table>

100 concurrent requests, 1_000 requests

$ ab -c 100 -n 1000 http://localhost:9292/

<table> <tr> <th>Microframework</th> <th>Request per second</th> <th>Time per request</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Rack</th> <th>1351.94 [#/sec] (mean)</th> <th>73.968 [ms] (mean)</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cuba</td> <td>1130.31 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>88.472 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit</td> <td>1325.77 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>75.428 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit with routes</td> <td>1249.96 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>80.002 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sinatra</td> <td>895.68 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>111.648 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> </table>

100 concurrent requests, 10_000 requests

$ ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://localhost:9292/

<table> <tr> <th>Microframework</th> <th>Request per second</th> <th>Time per request</th> </tr> <tr> <th>Rack</th> <th>1491.28 [#/sec] (mean)</th> <th>67.056 [ms] (mean)</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Cuba</td> <td>1168.82 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>85.556 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit</td> <td>1424.99 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>70.176 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Hobbit with routes</td> <td>624.10 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>160.231 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Sinatra</td> <td>960.74 [#/sec] (mean)</td> <td>104.086 [ms] (mean)</td> </tr> </table>

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request

License

See the LICENSE.