Comparative Study of Web Server Frameworks

Shaoxuan Yang, Gayatri Ravi Kamat

ABSTRACT

Web server frameworks are software frameworks that make it easier to
write, maintain and scale web applications. Numerous modern-day web
applications and web servers use underlying flexible web servers to
improvise their performance. Web frameworks exist for almost every
programming language, with the increase in the number of web servers
it becomes difficult to choose a web server framework which would be
better for performance enhancement, given a particular application.
We aim to provide a comparative study of four such web frameworks, in
order to get an insight into which framework would be better under a
given set of conditions. We have inspected each framework from
multiple perspectives, including productivity, performance, CPU
utilization, scalability and so on. We have also studied the
advantages and disadvantages of such frameworks based on architecture
and performance evaluations. This has led to a result that neither one
is a one-stop-solution for all workloads and conditions. The final
choice is dependent on what kind of application the developer wants to
build and the skill sets of the team building the application.