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

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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Servers specifications:

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

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

• red: Django
• blue: Symfony

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

• red: Django
• blue: Symfony

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

The results are:

• Django: 10
• Symfony: 180

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.