Andrew Maurer

 

Node.js vs ColdFusion Performance
11/06/2011 11:14:02 PM

The Showdown

Ok this isn't really a showdown. Both Nodejs and ColdFusion have their strong points and I didn't spend the time to go through them all. My question was simple, how much traffic can I ram down their throats and how quick will they respond. I incorporated a SQL insert into a local MySQL database. Now I will say, I had to use cluster to make it fair. Coldfusion will be using multiple threads along with Apache. Node running a single thread just isn't fair so I added one (1) worker per CPU for Nodejs. Also, I did verify that CF was able to process 10 simaltaineous requests. I left the default CF settings in-tact and of course, debugging was not turned on. **Note - I am using express to handle routes. My initial setup was using a good amount of configuration options which turned out to be very slow.

Results - Winner Nodejs

ColdFusion vs Nodejs with MySQL INSERT

Here is the code I used

Coldfusion - index.cfm

<cfquery name="inserttets" datasource="mycooldatasource">
INSERT INTO inserttest (created)
VALUES (#now()#);
</cfquery>

DONE!

Nodejs - server.js

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
var cluster = require('cluster');
var datetime = require('datetime');
var mysql = require('mysql');
var client = mysql.createClient({
    user: 'memyselfandi',
    password: 'youdontcareaboutthis',
    database: 'whatareyoulookingat'
});

app.get('/', function(req, res){

    var d = datetime.format(new Date(), "%Y-%m-%d %T");

    client.query("INSERT INTO inserttest SET created= ?", [d], function(err) {
        if (err) {
            res.writeHead(500, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
            res.end('DUDE SUX!');
            throw err;
        }
        res.send("DONE!");
    });
});

cluster(app)
    .set('workers', 8)
    .listen(8080);
Performance Summary of Maurer.me running Node.js

In Summary, here is my test and a list of JS files I created.

Test
Scripts
Reference

Performance Summary of Maurer.me running Node.js