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Subject: web applications architectures comparison
From: nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes")

Hi,

I was assigned a class work in the university to compare web
applications architectures, mainly PHP vs
Java+Hibernate+Struts/Stripes. I'll need to provide some benchmarks
for some typical web apps.

Well, I'm a bit afraid that Java may win, because of the usage of
Hibernate, which caches sql stuff in memory. The first request is
usually very slow (10 seconds or more), but following requests are
much faster.

So, do you have any suggestions for which PHP application architecture
should I discuss? Like a standard pdo-based app, with files being
generated and stored on the server, possibly bypassing php completly
on the following request (like livedocs). Use a particular PHP
framework (cake, zend, ...)? Any useful case-studies that you may have
are also welcome.

(Although I participate in the PHP development for a few years, the
websites I run have at most 1.5 million page views per month, so
performance isn't an issue, hence my lack of experience in scaling PHP
apps..)


Thanks,
Nuno

P.S.: Sorry for the off-topic, but I didn't find a better place to ask this.