Dropwizard Benchmarking Test

Dropwizard - ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services.

Mustashe tempate is used for the HTML tests. Test implementations with MongoDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL for backing datastore. Test implementations with Hibernate and JDBI as ORM frameworks, MongoJack for POJO to MongoDB document mapping.

Note: The Dropwizard Metrics are enabled and gathering data during the test runs.

Test sources

All test implementations share the same API end-points and POJO model classes. The API end-points are called resources in Dropwizard. This is the list:

• Plaintext
• JSON
• DB
• Queries
• Updates
• Fortune

Source code organisation

Test implementation	Dropwizard Service class	Dropwizard Configuration class	Maven profile
MongoDB&MongoJack	HelloMongoService.java	HelloMongoConfiguration.java	-P mongo
MySQL&Hibernate	HelloWorldService.java	HelloWorldConfiguration.java	-P mysql
PostgreSQL&Hibernate	HelloWorldService.java	HelloWorldConfiguration.java	-P postgres
PostgreSQL&JDBI	HelloJDBIService.java	HelloWorldConfiguration.java	-P postgres,jdbi

Each implementation has its own set of .yml configuration file and shell script.

MongoDB

• DB, Queries and Updates
• Fortune

(MySQL or PostgreSQL) and Hibernate

The Updates test is using JDBC batch updates and manual transaction handling.

• DB, Queries and Updates
• Fortune

PostgeSQL and JDBI

• DB, Queries and Updates
• Fortune

Software Versions

The tests were run with:

• Oracle Java 1.8
• Postgres 9.3
• MySQL 5.7
• MongoDB 3.2
• Dropwizard
• MongoJack

Please check the versions in the install scripts of TFB project.

Test URLs

All implementations use the same URLs.

• Plaintext - http://localhost:9090/plaintext
• JSON - http://localhost:9090/json
• DB - http://localhost:9090/db
• Queries - http://localhost:9090/db?queries=
• Updates - http://localhost:9090/db/update?queries=?
• Fortune - http://localhost:9090/fortunes