Performance Comparison and Evaluation of Web Development Technologies in PHP, Python, and Node.js

Large scale, high concurrency, and vast amount of data are important trends for the new generation of website. Node.js becomes popular and successful to build data-intensive web applications. To study and compare the performance of Node.js, Python-Web and PHP, we used benchmark tests and scenario te...

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Published in:2014 IEEE 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering pp. 661 - 668
Main Authors: Kai Lei, Yining Ma, Zhi Tan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.12.2014
Subjects:
Benchmark Test
Benchmark testing
Concurrent computing
Educational institutions
Java
Node.js
Performance Evaluation
Scenario Test
Web Development
Web servers
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Summary:Large scale, high concurrency, and vast amount of data are important trends for the new generation of website. Node.js becomes popular and successful to build data-intensive web applications. To study and compare the performance of Node.js, Python-Web and PHP, we used benchmark tests and scenario tests. The experimental results yield some valuable performance data, showing that PHP and Python-Web handle much less requests than that of Node.js in a certain time. In conclusion, our results clearly demonstrate that Node.js is quite lightweight and efficient, which is an idea fit for I/O intensive websites among the three, while PHP is only suitable for small and middle scale applications, and Python-Web is developer friendly and good for large web architectures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to evaluate these Web programming technologies with both objective systematic tests (benchmark) and realistic user behavior tests (scenario), especially taking Node.js as the main topic to discuss.
DOI:10.1109/CSE.2014.142