Real world performance

We maintain a list of external benchmark results here people have been experiencing to provide an idea of the relative performance you can expect from real-world usage:

Get 25k rows from MS SQL Express and convert to JSON

EF & JSON.NET                         2300ms
EF [AsNoTracking] & JSON.NET           973ms
EF [AsNoTracking] & ServiceStack       809ms
Simple.Data & JSON.NET                1598ms
Simple.Data & ServiceStack             933ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite & JSON.NET        405ms
ServiceStack.OrmLite & ServiceStack    245ms

ServiceStack vs WebApi client / server end-to-end results

ServiceStack                 9667ms
WebApi                      30407ms

(PS: The previous results showed huge difference, and that is due to the difference in the clients. When both uses the same JsonClient, they end up quite close to each other. And swapping in the ServiceStack Json Serializer into WebApi makes the difference negligible.)

GitHub project for the benchmarks are at: https://github.com/anilmujagic/ServiceBenchmark

ServiceStack: a good alternative to WCF (French)

ServiceStack                    19s
WCF Data Services (Optimized)   28s
WCF Data Services               48s

ServiceStack.net

One thing that I was completely surprised by today was the performance of the open source ServiceStack.NET frameworks. Even with the performance tuned release of JSON.NET I found that ServiceStack.Text beat it by a rediculous margin. It serialises 2x faster and deserialises 4x faster.

Redis vs RavenDB – Benchmarks for .NET Client NoSQL Solutions

Redis (Cygwin)                254ms
Redis (Cygwin + fsync)        543ms
Raven DB                     2983ms

MyMediaLite + ServiceStack

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We've also previously graphed comprehensive 3rd Party benchmarks and a couple of our own at: servicestack.net/benchmarks/.