Elixir Vs Ruby Benchmark

This is the second post in our elixir vs ruby showdown series.

Elixir vs ruby benchmark.

As we all know for comparison you need. This question becomes increasingly interesting as ruby 3 0 aims. When it comes to websockets clojure elixir and go are all choices that balance great performance with ease of development. After looking at the differences between the two languages lets put elixir s and ruby s characteristics into best use cases.

In this latest installment we re exploring the performance of the phoenix and rails web frameworks when put up against the same task. High traffic applications messages chats etc applications with 100 1000000 simultaneous connections on a single computer. Best use cases for elixir vs ruby. Jörg w mittag jun 9 17 at 1 26 3.

Now a little than a year later 13 5 months let s see how the different contestants have improved in the time passed. Jruby should definitely be considered for any rails deployment. Fast forward to present day and the elixir vs ruby debate has been solved. Ruby is a language of careful balance.

The winner for ruby performance testing was jruby. It won t make much sense unless you ve read the original. Like many other elixir enthusiasts i come from a ruby. Elixir leverages the erlang vm known for running low latency distributed and fault tolerant systems while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.

The ruby version is an imperative side effecting impure stateful loop. I was curious about chris mccord s phoenix vs rails article if you haven t read it go do that now first. Go ahead this will still be here when you get back. A dynamic interpreted open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity.

Benchmarking phoenix vs rails vs sinatra vs express vs martini. The elixir versions are a fold and a recursive function those are three very different algorithms. Ruby vs elixir vs go. In this benchmark test we compare three web application servers go node and elixir by subjecting each to a synthetic workload first with 10k and later with 100k connections to simulate a generic web application client and server behavior we have devised the following synthetic workload.

So i have decided to a make a smaller experiment with ruby to know more about its performance side. Though still far behind the other contestants jruby more than doubled the performance of mri. Elixir provides developers access to super fast concurrent testing with relatively minimal impact on hardware performance.