Performance Evaluation of Back-end Web Application Programming Languages
Date Issued
2023-07
Author(s)
Jelikj, Ivan
Abstract
There are many programming languages that can
be used for back-end web development. Numerous aspects of the
project could be affected by the choice of a language. Because of
that, the question about the most suitable programming language
for a given web application arises.
One of the main aims of this paper is to quantitatively
compare 4 programming languages that could be used for
back-end software development: Java, Kotlin, PHP and Python.
Execution time, RAM usage, and CPU usage were selected as
evaluation criteria. In order to be able to compare them, in
all 4 given languages an application with the same functionality
was created. The measurements were performed in an isolated
environment for a different number of requests and different
realistic scenarios.
From the results it could be concluded that Java and Kotlin
have in general better execution time in comparison with PHP
and Python, especially with a larger number of requests; Python
has the smallest usage of CPU while the other 3 languages
have similar usage; the usage of RAM in Python and PHP is
significantly smaller than Kotlin and Java.
be used for back-end web development. Numerous aspects of the
project could be affected by the choice of a language. Because of
that, the question about the most suitable programming language
for a given web application arises.
One of the main aims of this paper is to quantitatively
compare 4 programming languages that could be used for
back-end software development: Java, Kotlin, PHP and Python.
Execution time, RAM usage, and CPU usage were selected as
evaluation criteria. In order to be able to compare them, in
all 4 given languages an application with the same functionality
was created. The measurements were performed in an isolated
environment for a different number of requests and different
realistic scenarios.
From the results it could be concluded that Java and Kotlin
have in general better execution time in comparison with PHP
and Python, especially with a larger number of requests; Python
has the smallest usage of CPU while the other 3 languages
have similar usage; the usage of RAM in Python and PHP is
significantly smaller than Kotlin and Java.
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