SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

And I hope you are not running on Cake PHP when you see these numbers. Many of us are putting more into the front-end and having the application logic and back-end exposed through JavaScript (JSON) APIs. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me.

Framework 175

Framework Web PHP EC2 175

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. But a 40x difference between Vert.x

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe. But a 40x difference between Vert.x

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544