Since all the heavy lifting is done in compiled Java, it should be no surprise that Manticore is very fast.

ruby_http_benchmark was used to compare throughput for various frameworks, including:

• Manticore
• Typhoeus
• HTTPClient
• HTTParty
• rest-client

The benchmark was performs a warmup pass of 5000 requests per framework, then performs several hundred passes in various scenarios, including:

• Synchronous download of 1k, 10k, 100k, 1000k, and 10,000k files, both gzipped and plaintext
• Asynchronous download of 1k, 10k, 100k, 1000k, and 10,000k files, both gzipped and plaintext, at a concurrency rate of 8.

Results were collected as gnuplot graphs and the 90th percentile of requests charted as boxplots to illustrate their standard maxima, minima, average, and outliers.

These results were performed against a local server. A proper benchmark would test against remote servers, but it's somewhat rude to go download several GB of data every time one wants to test a code change. :)

The local server was nginx with uncompressed and pre-compressed files served via the gzip_static module. ulimits were relaxed to ensure that there would be no concurrency issues. The tests were run on an AWS EC2 c3.xlarge.

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Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_gzip (large)	1.558
Typhoeus	async_gzip (large)	4.928

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_gzip (medium)	0.902
Typhoeus	async_gzip (medium)	3.525

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_gzip (small)	0.943
Typhoeus	async_gzip (small)	3.463

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_gzip (very_large)	1.38
Typhoeus	async_gzip (very_large)	4.316

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_gzip (x_large)	23.181
Typhoeus	async_gzip (x_large)	47.685

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_plain (large)	2.072
Typhoeus	async_plain (large)	8.371

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_plain (medium)	1.548
Typhoeus	async_plain (medium)	4.086

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_plain (small)	1.595
Typhoeus	async_plain (small)	3.903

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_plain (very_large)	0.771
Typhoeus	async_plain (very_large)	10.025

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	async_plain (x_large	17.95
Typhoeus	async_plain (x_large	35.971

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	gzip (large)	0.5
Typhoeus	gzip (large)	0.581
HTTPClient	gzip (large)	0.907
RestClient	gzip (large)	0.932
HTTParty	gzip (large)	0.939
Excon	gzip (large)	1.762

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	gzip (medium)	0.293
Typhoeus	gzip (medium)	0.354
HTTPClient	gzip (medium)	0.584
HTTParty	gzip (medium)	0.586
RestClient	gzip (medium)	0.586
Excon	gzip (medium)	1.407

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	gzip (small)	0.287
Typhoeus	gzip (small)	0.344
HTTParty	gzip (small)	0.54
RestClient	gzip (small)	0.573
HTTPClient	gzip (small)	0.573
Excon	gzip (small)	1.362

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	gzip (very_large)	0.434
Typhoeus	gzip (very_large)	0.525
HTTParty	gzip (very_large)	0.832
RestClient	gzip (very_large)	0.839
HTTPClient	gzip (very_large)	0.851
Excon	gzip (very_large)	0.995

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	gzip (x_large)	4.327
Typhoeus	gzip (x_large)	4.465
RestClient	gzip (x_large)	7.779
HTTParty	gzip (x_large)	7.787
Excon	gzip (x_large)	7.954
HTTPClient	gzip (x_large)	8.281

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Typhoeus	sync (large)	0.488
Manticore	sync (large)	0.489
HTTParty	sync (large)	0.687
HTTPClient	sync (large)	0.906
RestClient	sync (large)	1.071
Excon	sync (large)	1.424

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	sync (medium)	0.351
Typhoeus	sync (medium)	0.422
HTTParty	sync (medium)	0.552
HTTPClient	sync (medium)	0.608
RestClient	sync (medium)	0.695
Excon	sync (medium)	1.324

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	sync (small)	0.428
Typhoeus	sync (small)	0.49
HTTParty	sync (small)	0.648
HTTPClient	sync (small)	0.668
RestClient	sync (small)	0.7
Excon	sync (small)	1.417

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	sync (very_large)	0.223
Typhoeus	sync (very_large)	0.359
HTTParty	sync (very_large)	0.452
Excon	sync (very_large)	0.621
HTTPClient	sync (very_large)	0.647
RestClient	sync (very_large)	0.836

Framework	Test	Speed (seconds)
Manticore	sync (x_large)	1.913
Excon	sync (x_large)	2.538
Typhoeus	sync (x_large)	2.644
HTTParty	sync (x_large)	3.582
HTTPClient	sync (x_large)	4.455
RestClient	sync (x_large)	7.939

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