Performance comparison of web application frameworks

Comparing the throughput of web application frameworks

Referring to cakephper’s articles, I also tried to compare the throughput of the web application frameworks, which are CakePHP, Codeigniter, Ruby on Rails and TreeFrog Framework.

The throughput of retrieving and displaying of one record in RDB was measured.

Note

In this article, "faster" means that the throughput of a framework is higher.

Environment

Server: Core2 Duo E4500 @ 2.20GHz / 2GB Memory / SATA HDD / 1Gbps Ethernet
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit)
PHP 5.3.10 with APC3.1.7
Ruby 1.9.3p194
Apache 2.2.22
MySQL 5.5.24

Schema of ‘posts’ table

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `posts` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL, `text` text, `created` datetime DEFAULT NULL, `modified` datetime DEFAULT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Beforehand, ten records that contained Japanese’s text were inserted into RDB.
Because I want to measure the speeds of frameworks purely, the number of the records in RDB was reduced to 10 so that RDB processing does not become a bottleneck.

Frameworks

TreeFrog Framework 1.0
CakePHP 2.2.0
Codeigniter2.0.2
Rails 3.2.6 (Apache+Passenger+Asset Pipeline ON)

Measuring tool

Using the measuring tool Siege, I measured how many times it can process for 3 seconds by simultaneous 10 connections from a remote machine. Measuring is carried out about 10 times every frameworks, and the average of the top three of them was enumerated.

$ siege -b -c 10 -t 3S http://192.168.x.x/controller/path

FYI, Measuring the code written by Plain PHP, the result was 1261 trans/sec. Amazing!
I found simplistic PHP code is awfully fast.