Django Vs Flask

A repo for performing speed test, ORM benchmarking and framework comparison with minimal web application setup between Django and Flask. Visit My article for more details.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Run Test
• Report
• Sample Results
• Reference
• Support
• Contributing

Installation

Follow the docker installation guide to install docker in your local machine

Run Test

Clone the Repo and Run the Test:

git clone https://github.com/titusjoyson/django-flask-speedtest
cd django-flask-speedtest

# build and run the containers
docker-compose up --build -d

# load some data
# login to django container
docker-compose exec django bash
django# cd djangospeed

# insert 10000 records
django# python manage.py load_data 10000
django# exit

# Run the bellow command to create the results in
# benchmark/results/flask_docker_result_ob.txt
# benchmark/results/django_docker_result_ob.txt
bash benchmark/run_test_docker.sh

Sample Results

Requests/Sec Benchmarking

Check the results here

Server Software:        nginx/1.17.4
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            8000

Document Path:          /django/speedtest/simple/
Document Length:        1910 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   2.579 seconds
Complete requests:      2000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      4278000 bytes
HTML transferred:       3820000 bytes
Requests per second:    775.60 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       12.893 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1.289 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          1620.13 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       4
Processing:     3   13  34.1     10     513
Waiting:        3   13  34.1     10     513
Total:          3   13  34.1     10     513

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     10
  66%     11
  75%     11
  80%     12
  90%     13
  95%     15
  98%     18
  99%     20
 100%    513 (longest request)

ORM Benchmarking

Time taken to complete 1000 queries:

Action	Django ORM	Flask-SQLAlchemy
Select	0.032263662	0.012180415
Count	1.403982088	2.63598253
pagination	4.687958269	3.82162432
aggregate	2.005817666	2.569968947
create	3.228642431	4.362719425
save	4.824882885	1.669172032
update	3.277724468	5.25546317

Reference

• A better ORM Comparison link

Support

Please open an issue for support.

Contributing

Please contribute by Creating a branch, adding commits, and open a pull request.