Python's Web Framework Benchmarks

The Participants

• Aiohttp 0.16.3 — http client/server for Asyncio.
• Bottle 0.12.8 — Fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework
• Django 1.8.2 — The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
• Falcon 0.3.0 — A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs
• Flask 0.10.1 — A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions
• Muffin 0.0.88 — A web-framework based on Asyncio stack
• Pyramid 1.5.7 — A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework
• Tornado 4.2 — A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library

The objective of the benchmark is not testing deployment (like uwsgi vs gunicorn and etc) but instead test the frameworks itself.

The Methodic

Results bellow were received with Amazon EC2 t2.medium server. I've used a WRK utility with params:

$ wrk -d30s -t12 -c400 [URL]

Most of the frameworks (except Tornado) were running from Gunicorn HTTP Server with 2 workers and Meinheld worker class for WSGI applications. Example:

$ gunicorn [APP] --workers=2 --worker-class=meinheld.gmeinheld.MeinheldWorker

The sources of the applications for tests can be found at here.

The benchmark has a three kind of tests:

1. JSON test. Serialize a object to JSON and return `application/json` response.
2. Remote test. Load and return http response from a remote server.
3. Complete test. Load some data from DB using ORM, insert a new object, sort and render to template.

The Results

Conclusion

Nothing here, just some measures for you.