Apache vs Node Benchmark

Apache

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1638069 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)


Server Software:        Apache/2.4.12
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /apache-app/home.php
Document Length:        2 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   4.592 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      1680000 bytes
HTML transferred:       20000 bytes
Requests per second:    2177.90 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       45.916 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.459 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          357.31 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   1.2      0      13
Processing:     6   45  12.7     42     169
Waiting:        4   44  11.7     41     168
Total:         17   46  12.6     43     169

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     43
  66%     46
  75%     48
  80%     50
  90%     58
  95%     67
  98%     87
  99%    100
 100%    169 (longest request)

app.js

// Server up and running //////////////////////////
var express = require('express')
  , app = express()
  , server = require('http').createServer(app)
  , io = require('socket.io').listen(server)

app.start = app.listen = function(){
  return server.listen.apply(server, arguments)
};

app.start(8080);
///////////////////////////////////////////////////

// Configuration //////////////////////////////////

// change default template engine ejs to html
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
app.set('view engine', 'html');

// make assets public
app.use(express.static('assets'));


// Routes /////////////////////////////////////////

app.get('/home', function (req, res) {
	res.render('index');
});

Node.js

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1638069 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            8080

Document Path:          /home
Document Length:        2 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   7.971 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      1950000 bytes
HTML transferred:       20000 bytes
Requests per second:    1254.58 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       79.708 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.797 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          238.91 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   1.0      0      15
Processing:    32   79  10.4     77     145
Waiting:       32   79  10.2     76     145
Total:         38   79  10.3     77     145

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     77
  66%     79
  75%     81
  80%     83
  90%     93
  95%    102
  98%    114
  99%    120
 100%    145 (longest request)