Benchmarks
All benchmarks were run as Node.js containerized workloads, using 4 CPU cores and 4GiB RAM. Docker host running on Macbook M1 Pro 2021 16GB.
Find the benchmarks' code here
HTTP Benchmark
Requirements:
- endpoint returning 200 and no body
- request logging (using framework builtins, recommendations if not present, Basica recommendations if not present)
Benchmarks run with autocannon (100 requests, 10 pipelines, 40 seconds)
| Framework | Startup Time (ms) | Throughput (MB/s) (p90) | Requests/s (p90) | Latency (ms) (p90) | CPU (%) (p90) | RAM (%) (p90) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basica + Fastify | 18 | 0.58 | 39615 | 31 | 220 | 44 |
| Fastify | 15 | 0.61 | 41663 | 30 | 224 | 45 |
| NestJS | 339 | 0.19 | 11199 | 103 | 110 | 3 |
| NestJS + Fastify | 370 | 0.53 | 36319 | 33 | 148 | 40 |
CRUD Benchmark
Requirements:
- REST api with CRUD methods
- request logging (using framework builtins, recommendations if not present, Basica recommendations if not present)
- not found / conflict error mapping (using framework builtins, recommendations if not present,Bbasica recommendations if not present)
- request/response validation (using framework builtins, recommendations if not present, Basica recommendations if not present)
- postgresql + migrations (using framework builtins, recommendations if not present, Basica recommendations if not present)
Benchmarks run with autocannon (100 requests, 10 pipelines, 40 seconds)
| Framework | Startup Time (ms) | Throughput (MB/s) (p90) | Requests/s (p90) | Latency (ms) (p90) | CPU (%) (p90) | RAM (%) (p90) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basica + Fastify | 183 | 4.22 | 1573 | 717 | 126 | 5 |
| Fastify | 69 | 4.21 | 1562 | 781 | 124 | 5 |
| NestJS | 804 | 1.91 | 573 | 2450 | 123 | 8 |
| NestJS + Fastify | 836 | 2.54 | 772 | 2309 | 122 | 10 |