POC Faster Server

This proof of concept aims to determine the fastest and most performative framework, based on a simple Healthcheck implementation.

Frameworks

• Activej (Java)
• Dropwizard (Java)
• Echo (Golang)
• Express (Nodejs)
• Jooby (Java)
• Micronaut (Java)
• Quarkus (Java)
• Spring MVC (Java)
• Spring Webflux (Java)
• Thorntail (Java)
• Vert.x (Java)

Benchmark

The tests were performed using the benchmarking tools above:

• WRK
• Apache Benchmark
• Locust

WRK - 100 Requests, 100 Thread 🔥

Framework	Request/sec	Transfer/sec
activej	190935.59	21.26MB
dropwizard	71040.23	10.43MB
jooby	299537.47	38.28MB
micronaut	178704.01	26.25MB
quarkus	259520.96	26.48MB
spring mvc	94840.14	13.31MB
spring webflux	165601.39	14.69MB
thorntail	117448.17	17.25MB
vert.x	139222.75	12.35MB
echo	250430.22	35.11MB
express	11694.85	2.87MB

WRK - 1M Requests, 1 Thread 🚀

Framework	Request/sec	Transfer/sec
activej	168910.86	21.26MB
dropwizard	17771.23	2.61MB
jooby	119640.7	15.40MB
micronaut	86104.02	12.73MB
quarkus	99268.10	10.13MB
spring mvc	25903.94	21.26MB
spring webflux	68963.34	6.12MB
thorntail	61307.96	9.00MB
vert.x	91806.23	8.14MB
echo	117374.54	16.45MB
express	18402.85	4.11MB

ApacheBench - 100K Requests, 100 Concurrency 🚀

Framework	Request/sec	Transfer/sec
activej	48490.42	6MB
dropwizard	13366.64	2.01MB
jooby	35824.68	4.68MB
micronaut	24113.93	3.53MB
quarkus	24695.25	2.58MB
spring mvc	24649.89	3.05MB
spring webflux	26366.99	2.39MB
thorntail	25958.03	3.77MB
vert.x	37519.58	3.40MB

Environment

• Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
• 16G RAM
• 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz × 8