Moh-Snoussi/django_vs_symfony

Symfony vs Django

Table of contents

• Description
• Project structure
• Requirements
• Installation
• Benchmarking with Jmeter

Description

This repository contains two simple applications written in Symfony and Django. The goal is to compare the performance of both frameworks. Both applications has the same functionality: displaying a list of questions and related choices, and has the bare minimum requirements of an MVC application:

• Models: ORM and Connecting to a database
• Views: using a template engine
• Controllers: Business logic and routing mechanism

Project structure

• apache_virtualhosts: contains the apache virtual hosts configuration files
• django_site: contains the django application
• mysql_dumps: contains the mysql database dump
• symfony_app: contains the symfony application
• jmeter: contains the jmeter configuration files

Requirements

• Apache2, with mod_php-fpm, mod_wsgi and mod_rewrite enabled
• MySQL 8.0
• Python 3.10
• pipenv
• virtualenv
• PHP 8.2
• Composer
• Jmeter

Installation

Database

1. Create a database

mysqladmin -u root -p create django_symfony

3. Create a user

mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE USER 'django_symfony'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'django_symfony';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON django_symfony.* TO 'django_symfony'@'localhost';

4. Import the database

cd mysql_dumps
mysql -u django_symfony -p django_symfony < django_symfony.sql
# password: django_symfony

Django

Installation

1. Create a virtual environment

vitualenv -p python3.10 .venv

2. Activate the virtual environment

pipenv shell

3. Install the requirements

pipenv install
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data django_site

Server configuration

1. adjust the apache_virtualhosts/django_app.conf file to your needs
2. copy it to the apache configuration directory:

cd apache_virtualhosts
sudo cp django_app.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/django_app.conf

3. Enable the site

sude a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo a2ensite django_app.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2

Symfony

Installation

1. Install the dependencies

composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader

2. Clear/Generate the cache

APP_ENV=prod APP_DEBUG=0 php bin/console cache:clear
# insure permissions are correct
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data var # or sudo chmod -R 777 var

Server configuration

1. adjust the apache_virtualhosts/symfony_app.conf file to your needs
2. copy it to the apache configuration directory:

cd apache_virtualhosts
sudo cp symfony_app.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/symfony_app.conf

3. Enable the site

sudo a2ensite symfony_app.conf
# disable python app
sudo a2dissite django_app.conf
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
sudo systemctl reload apache2

Benchmarking with Jmeter

1. Install Jmeter
2. Install the Jmeter plugins manager
3. Install the Jmeter PerfMon plugin
4. Lunch PerfMon Agent on the server

./jmeter/ServersAgent-2.2.3/startAgent.sh
# as default, the agent will listen on port 4444

5. Adjust the Jmeter configuration to your needs from ./jmeter/TestPlan.jmx

Results:

Servers specifications:

• ec2 instances (t2.micro) 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM

Settings

• 20 concurrent users
• ramp-up period: 10 seconds
• duration: 15 seconds

Response time over time:

Perfmom metrics:

• red: Django
• blue: Symfony

Settings

• 50 concurrent users
• ramp-up period: 10 seconds
• duration: 15 seconds

Response time over time:

Perfmom metrics:

• red: Django
• blue: Symfony

Settings

How many concurrent users can the applications handle before reaching 90% of CPU usage?

The results are:

• Django: 10
• Symfony: 180

Conclusion

as Objective as I can be, and based on my tests, I can say: Symfony/Php is to much faster, and efficient than Django/Python.