Python's Web Framework Benchmarks

Participants

• Django (2.1.4)
• Flask (1.0.2)
• AioHTTP (3.5.1)
• Sanic (18.12)
• Tornado (5.1.1)

Start Frameworks and Benchmarks

Start Framework Server

To run any framework you need:

1. Go to the framework directory. For example: cd aiohttp

2. Start the server using a script: bash start.sh

To stop the server script is used: bash stop.sh

Start Benchmark

The wrk library is used for benchmarking. Benchmarks ran with the following parameters

• Threads = 12 (total number of threads to use)
• Connections = 400 (total number of HTTP connections to keep open with each thread handling N = connections/threads)
• Duration = 30s (duration of the test)

To run the benchmark for current framework you should run the command:

wrk -t12 -c400 -d30s http://127.0.0.1:8080/db

Benchmark Results

In our article we have described the test results in detail. You can read it here.

Contributors

• Maksim Larkin
• Yauheni Holik
• Vladimir Rubin