Performance evaluation of RESTful web services and AMQP protocol

Abstract

Web services appeared as a promising technology for Web environments independent of technologies, services, and applications. Currently, there are some issues related with this approach that should be studied. For instance, if massive quantities of data are sent to databases it can influence significantly the performance of the whole system. The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMPQ) appears as a promising solution to address this problem. Then, in order to evaluate the performance of this approach, this paper presents a performance comparison study of RESTful Web services and the AMQP Protocol considering exchanging messages between client and server. The study is based on the averaged exchanged messages for a period of time. It was observed and concluded that, for large quantities of messages exchange, the best results comes from the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol.