This is a very basic benchmark suite to compare different HTTP server's performance. It is inspired by arcadius/java-rest-api-web-container-benchmark, but uses h2load instead of ab.

It works by running a predifined number of requests from a predefined number of concurrent clients against an HTTP server at localhost and measuring, among others, the execution time.

Currently, I included server implementations in Java (using Jersey with an embedded Grizzly server), Go (using net/http) and NodeJS (once using plain http package and again using the de-facto standard Express framework). All implementations are very basic REST APIs consisting of exactly one route, which exposes a static set of simple resources (Todo Items) as JSON. My results can be found in the results folder.

• h2load to be installed

1. Clone this repository
2. Start an HTTP server on your local machine
3. Adapt parameters in run-load.sh
   1. URL: The URL of your HTTP server's endpoint to be tested against
   2. NUM_REQUESTS: Total number of request to execute across all clients
   3. CONCURRENCY: Number of concurrent clients to perform requests
   4. THREADS: Number of CPU threads to use for h2load
4. chmod +x run-load.sh
5. ./run-load.sh
6. View results.log

Running this benchmark suite gave me the following results. To read more details about my test setup etc., please refer to this article.

MIT @ Ferdinand Mütsch