TechEmpower.FrameworkBenchmarks/frameworks/Python/falcon/README.md

Falcon Benchmark Test

This is the Falcon portion of a benchmarking tests suite comparing a variety of web development platforms.

The information below is specific to Falcon. For further guidance, review the documentation. Also note that there is additional information provided in the Python README.

Description

Falcon is a blazing fast, minimalist Python web API framework for building robust app backends and microservices. The framework works great with both asyncio (ASGI) and gevent/meinheld (WSGI).

Features:

• ASGI, WSGI, and WebSocket support Native asyncio support.
• No reliance on magic globals for routing and state management.
• Stable interfaces with an emphasis on backwards-compatibility.
• Simple API modeling through centralized RESTful routing.
• Highly-optimized, extensible code base.
• DRY request processing via middleware components and hooks.
• Strict adherence to RFCs.
• Idiomatic HTTP error responses.
• Straightforward exception handling.
• WSGI/ASGI testing helpers and mocks.
• CPython 3.5+ and PyPy 3.5+ support.

Infrastructure Software

Server

• Waitress on CPython3
• Bjoern on Cpython3
• Gunicorn + Meinheld on CPython3
• Gunicorn + Meinheld with Orjson on CPython3
• Gunicorn Sync on PyPy3

Database

• Pony ORM [PostgreSQL] - (psycopg2-binary on CPython3, psycopg2cffi on PyPy3)

Test Paths & Sources

All of the test implementations are located within a single file (app.py) and accessible via http://localhost:8080.

• JSON Serialization: "/json"
• Single Database Query: "/db"
• Multiple Database Queries: "/queries/"
• Fortunes: "/fortunes"
• Database Updates: "/updates/"
• Plaintext: "/plaintext"

Get Help

Resources

• Falcon on Github
• Docs
• FAQ
• Wiki

Community

• Chatrooms Falcon for Users and Falcon for Contributors @ Gitter
• Submit an issue