A Performance Comparison of RESTful Applications Implemented in Spring Boot Java and MS.NET Core

Abstract RESTful is an emergent architectural style to develop web services/applications due to its lightweight nature. Though more and more organizations are adopting RESTful services, when it comes to choosing the right platform to implement one, teams usually gravitate towards reusing the existing skillset and prefer the platform that they currently support instead of looking for a better performing alternative. Considering that internal architecture and implementation of each platform can drastically affect its efficiency and performance, the objective of this research paper is to assess and compare the performance of RESTful web applications implemented in Spring Boot Java and MS.NET Core. An identical business use case to provide the basic four Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations was developed in both implementations. Apache JMeter 5.2.1, an automated performance testing tool is used in this experiment to create a swamp of concurrent virtual users to load both the applications at regular intervals. The comprehensive experimental results are presented at the end of the research paper.