This is performance benchmark of popular C++ REST frameworks.
This repository contains:
- Code of each sample implementation.
- Vagrant configuration of virtual machine where to build all samples and run benchmark.
- Benchmark results.
Code of samples is located in samples folder.
Scenario of each sample is the same:
- Client performs GET request to HTTP server.
- HTTP server must return JSON array of 10,000 items.
There are several implementations of HTTP server:
- C++ : cpprestsdk
- C++ : restbed
- C++ : pistache
- PHP : Native implementation
Results of benchmark are located in results folder.
Benchmark was done by running ab -n 1000 -c 1 -k <url> (see Apache Benchmark) against each implementation.
(+) Code documentation of cpprestsdk is one of the best amongst all projects that I have ever seen during my 8 years carreer as software developer. Examples are well structured and easy to reproduce.
(+) cpprestsdk has its own implementation of JSON serializer/deserializer, so you don't need to additionally include RapidJSON or other library.
(+) cpprestsdk is included in Ubuntu 16 Xenial official repository, so you can install it easily by running single apt command.
(+) Licensed under MIT.
(-) Worst performance (even worse than PHP) on Linux server. There is opened issue for this problem on project's github (microsoft/cpprestsdk#468), but it is not solved yet.
(+) Good documentation on design of framework.
(+) Small and easy to use.
(-) No inline code documentation.
(-) Licensed under either AGPL or proprietary license.
(-) Some important features are still missing, e.g. server-side caching and HTTP2 compliance.
(+) Fastest performance.
(+) Small and easy to use.
(+) Licensed under Apache License 2.0.
(-) No inline code documentation.
(-) No comprehensive list of implemented features.
(-) Installation instructions are not present in repository and not obvious to find (you should look on "Getting started" page, not on "User's Guide" FYI).
(-) Unit tests are ill-formed.
