Catalyst vs Rails vs Djan

Catalyst vs Rails vs Djan

Catalyst vs Rails vs Djan
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Today I began working on a new project and decided to benchmark Catalyst and Rails for fun. See how my new favorable framework does against Rails. I was a bit shocked at the results though. I guess this is worth mentioning in hope Catalyst can improve in it's Accessor Generation code. So here are the results:

Benchmark System
Celeron 1.8Ghz
1 Gig of Ram
FreeBSD-6

Interpreters:
Ruby - 1.8.5
Perl - 5.8.8

Frameworks:
Catalyst - 5.7003
Rails - 1.1.6

Run as:
Lighttpd: 1.4.13
FCGI: 3 max proc

Benchmarked as:
ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://siteurl.com/

h3. Some background

I specifically turned off sessions and did not use ActiveRecord/DBIC to keep it as fair as possible between the two frameworks. Both frameworks were run under Lighttpd and FCGI. I tried to keep this as apples to apples as possible.

So lets take a look at the results!

Rails:


Server Software: lighttpd/1.4.13
Server Hostname: wansanity.com
Server Port: 9090

Document Path: /main/index
Document Length: 2142 bytes

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 18.261 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 2296892 bytes
HTML transferred: 2143288 bytes
Requests per second: 54.76 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1826.10 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 18.26 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 125.78 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 74 885 1742.9 138 11785
Processing: 172 661 1216.8 173 8195
Waiting: 84 661 1216.8 173 8194
Total: 172 1547 2123.8 330 11893

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 330
66% 1354
75% 2786
80% 3106
90% 4297
95% 6279
98% 8216
99% 9285
100% 11893 (last request)

Thats 54 connections / sec which is great. I have seen it peak at 70 connections/sec which is just awesome!

Catalyst:


Server Software: lighttpd/1.4.13
Server Hostname: wansanity.com
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 2232 bytes

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 43.503 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 2401300 bytes
HTML transferred: 2238490 bytes
Requests per second: 22.99 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 4350.30 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 43.50 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 55.20 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 75 322 808.5 93 6028
Processing: 269 3804 851.8 3928 6754
Waiting: 192 3804 851.7 3928 6754
Total: 269 4126 1178.5 4186 10293

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 4186
66% 4384
75% 4404
80% 4424
90% 5025
95% 6422
98% 7194
99% 7709
100% 10293 (last request)

22 connections / sec not exactly what I expected from a framework built on top of the fast Perl Interpreter.

Being a bit disappointed with the results, I investigated further.

So here are the perl dprof results.


%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c Name
0.00 0.605 4.128 1512 0.0004 0.0027 NEXT::AUTOLOAD
0.00 0.373 0.373 25794 0.0000 0.0000 Class::Accessor::Fast::__ANON__
0.00 0.235 0.235 1177 0.0002 0.0002 NEXT::ELSEWHERE::ancestors
0.00 0.211 0.225 1 0.2107 0.2253 YAML::Type::code::BEGIN
0.00 0.184 5.182 86 0.0021 0.0603 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::_handler
0.00 0.177 0.205 2583 0.0001 0.0001 File::Spec::Unix::canonpath
0.00 0.164 0.309 1942 0.0001 0.0002 File::Spec::Unix::catdir
0.00 0.156 2.408 3201 0.0000 0.0008 Catalyst::Action::__ANON__
0.00 0.134 0.739 73 0.0018 0.0101 base::import
0.00 0.129 0.136 5904 0.0000 0.0000 Class::Data::Inheritable::__ANON__
0.00 0.109 0.814 7 0.0155 0.1163 main::BEGIN
0.00 0.108 0.108 1323 0.0001 0.0001 HTTP::Headers::_header
0.00 0.101 0.116 10 0.0101 0.0116 Template::Parser::BEGIN
0.00 0.101 0.334 11 0.0092 0.0304 Catalyst::Engine::BEGIN
0.00 0.101 0.295 1264 0.0001 0.0002 Path::Class::Dir::stringify

It seems like the main bottleneck in Catalyst 5.7003 is Next. Jrockway was kind enough to post some new code into Catalyst's trunk for me to try; a new replacement for Next - C3.

Here are the results with the C3 Plugin from Trunk


%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c Name
0.00 0.211 0.233 1 0.2106 0.2330 YAML::Type::code::BEGIN
0.00 0.135 0.135 8035 0.0000 0.0000 Class::Accessor::Fast::__ANON__
0.00 0.126 0.721 73 0.0017 0.0099 base::import
0.00 0.109 0.116 10 0.0109 0.0116 Template::Parser::BEGIN
0.00 0.108 0.805 7 0.0155 0.1150 main::BEGIN
0.00 0.093 0.106 7 0.0133 0.0152 Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter:
:Watcher::BEGIN
0.00 0.090 0.105 1023 0.0001 0.0001 File::Spec::Unix::canonpath
0.00 0.085 0.326 11 0.0077 0.0296 Catalyst::Engine::BEGIN
0.00 0.081 0.905 196 0.0004 0.0046 Catalyst::execute
0.00 0.069 0.120 8 0.0087 0.0150 Catalyst::Plugin::Server::XMLRPC::
Request::BEGIN
0.00 0.064 1.639 444 0.0001 0.0037 next::method
0.00 0.061 0.313 32 0.0019 0.0098 Catalyst::BEGIN
0.00 0.054 0.216 7 0.0077 0.0309 Template::Config::load
0.00 0.054 0.189 4 0.0135 0.0473 HTTP::Body::OctetStream::BEGIN
0.00 0.054 0.388 4 0.0135 0.0970 Gambit::BEGIN

So there you have it, the results with the C3 Plugin. It only made a slight difference by pushing the Catalyst benchmark score to 25 connections / sec.

I hope this benchmark can get some changes put into place for Catalyst's next release.

Conclusion
It seems like Rails is roughly 62% faster than Catalyst at this time. Keep in mind this benchmark does not take into account the ORM performance. This benchmark tests how quick the frameworks themselves dispatch methods and render views.

Also take into consideration when choosing a framework you need to look at the problem at hand. Catalyst can feed off Perl's vast CPAN resource library. Catalyst has features that Rails does not have. Catalyst's DBIC ORM supports multi-column primary keys and can do relationship mapping just by reading the schema! You don't even have to bother writing any has_many belongs_to definitions!

I am going to have to take a look into Django see how well it fairs in this benchmark. Perhaps an update on this?

Update Django Results


Server Software: lighttpd/1.4.13
Server Hostname: fab40
Server Port: 9090

Document Path: /
Document Length: 2235 bytes

Concurrency Level: 100
Time taken for tests: 13.643 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 2409769 bytes
HTML transferred: 2253459 bytes
Requests per second: 73.30 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1364.30 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 13.64 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 176.63 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 76 483 1068.1 101 8666
Processing: 190 744 726.3 571 6088
Waiting: 93 744 726.4 572 6088
Total: 190 1227 1414.2 692 9606

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 692
66% 972
75% 1209
80% 1445
90% 3282
95% 4020
98% 6414
99% 8113
100% 9606 (last request)

72 connections / sec! Amazing and the winner!

And anyone that disagrees with this can go ahead and look at the code for all three projects.

I have the least experience with django for your information

mst Please don't kill me'

Many thanks go out to jrockway to helping me point out the root cause of the bottleneck in Catalyst.

没用过Catalyst,不了解哈..
没用过Catalyst,不了解哈.
期盼有Catalyst经验的同学出来讲解讲解.
上面的数字已经说明问题了.
上面的数字已经说明问题了啊。
fayland 对 catalyst 比较.
fayland 对 catalyst 比较熟悉,他刚刚完成 zorpia.com 从传统 cgi (mod_perl)到 catalyst 的迁移
据他说 catalyst 载入的模块太多,在 mod_perl 下比较占用内存资源,效率没有以前高,不过比较稳定
喜欢瘦小 framework 的朋友可以试试 CGI::Application , 相比 catalyst 要来得简单,轻灵,一个非常成熟的架构。
http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/CGI-Application-4.06/lib/CGI/Application.pm