Aimeos has recently proven to be capable of handling one billion articles and more in an online shop using the #gigacommerce extension. This is far more than the number of articles at the Amazon market place which is currently estimated by around 562 million items. But the sheer numbers doesn't...
Aimeos has recently proven to be capable of handling one billion articles and more in an online shop using the #gigacommerce extension. This is far more than the number of articles at the Amazon market place which is currently estimated by around 562 million items. But the sheer numbers doesn't say anything about the performance so how fast can Aimeos delivery content when users browsing the shop pages?
For a realistic test Aimeos has been set up in a standard cloud hosting environent sponsored by Profihost, an e-commerce hoster from Hannover, Germany. They provided two of their "Flexserver Expert" packages, which are virtual machines running on a cluster with Intel Xeon Skylake 2,6 GHz CPUs.
LAMP VM: 8 Core, 16GB RAM, 17GB on SSD
Debian Linux, Apache 2.4, MySQL 5.7, PHP 7.2, ElasticSearch 5.4
Laravel 5.7, Symfony 4.1, TYPO3 8.7
Aimeos 2018.10, ai-elastic extension 2018.10
| ACTION | TIME |
| Stalled | 5.26 ms |
| Request sent | 0.12 ms |
| Waiting (TTFB) | 50.74 ms |
| Content Download | 18.33 ms |
| Sum | 75.28 ms |
The Aimeos list and detail page were tested, both with cache and without. The cache does NOT contain the complete page ("full page cache") as in other shop systems, but only page fragments such as the product list or the product details. The page frame is provided by Laravel, Symfony and TYPO3, in which the fragments are inserted before delivering the page to the client.
The tests showed that Laravel 5.7 and Symfony 4.1 are about the same speed. In the evaluations of Loader.io, there were no significant differences between the two and therefore the results were summarized. The only measurable difference is about 5ms, which Symfony 4.1 can generate on an unloaded system faster than Laravel 5.7. Under load there is no more difference.
With TYPO3 as frontend, the server can process fewer requests per second, but TYPO3 is not directly comparable to Laravel/Symfony. As a complete content management system, TYPO3 allows the maintenance of pages by editors, which is not easily possible with Laravel/Symfony.
With over 600 PI/second and a processing time on the server less than 20ms, the Aimeos E-Commerce System is certainly one of the fastest shop systems. The differences between list and detail view are mainly due to the different page size (189KB to 66KB) and the resulting longer time for data transfer.
Competitors can only achieve similar results by storing complete pages in a Varnish cache and loading shopping carts and other dynamic content through AJAX queries. However, Aimeos is so fast that this would make response times even worse, because the separate query for e.g. the shopping cart is not necessary at all with Aimeos.
Even without cache the number of 130-150 PI/second and the response times of 162ms incl. network latency (130ms without latency) are excellent values compared to other shop systems, especially since the system can scale up to 1 billion and more items. This makes Aimeos particularly suitable for high-load scenarios such as TV advertising.
More about #gigacommerce: https://aimeos.com/gigacommerce