HTTP 'Hello World' Benchmark

Mini bechmark, comparing the performance HTTP 'hello world' on different stacks:

• NGINX 1.11.5
• Java Spring-Boot 1.4.2, Oracle JDK 8
• Java Spark Framework
• Java Undertow
• Golang 1.7
• Golang 1.7 with Fasthttp
• NodeJS 7.2
• CGI (Apache+mksh)

Results

| Framework | Req/sec (Docker) | Req/sec (Native) |----------------------------|--------------------:|------------------:| | nginx | 105012 | 105844 | | Spring-Boot (first run) | 15848 | 18138 | | Spring-Boot (second run) | 27942 | 28170 | | Java Spark (first run) | 73393 | 87787 | | Java Spark (second run) | 84323 | 97970 | | Java Undertow (first run) | 189187 | 199366 | | Java Undertow (second run) | 206238 | 221360 | | Golang | 122949 | 126742 | | Golang - fasthttp | 192478 | 196169 | | NodeJS | 46803 | 49421 | | CGI | 3069 | | | Swift/Kitura | 35145 | |

Test setup

• Ubuntu 16.04.
• i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, with hyper threadding)
• Tested with wrk (v4.0.0): 4 threads, 20 connections, 20 seconds
• Setup 1: All Servers are running in a docker container (v1.12.3, --net=host)
• Setup 2: Local running services