Tornado (web server)
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| Original author(s) | FriendFeed |
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| Developer(s) | Facebook, Bret Taylor |
| Initial release | 2009 |
| Stable release | 4.2[1] / May 26, 2015 |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web server |
| License | Apache licence 2.0 |
| Website | www |
Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.[2] It was developed for use by FriendFeed; the company was acquired by Facebook in 2009 and Tornado was open-sourced soon after.[3]
Performance
Tornado is noted for its high performance. It tries to solve the C10k problem affecting other servers. The following table shows a benchmark test of Tornado against other Python-based servers:
| Server | Setup | Requests per second |
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| Tornado | nginx, four frontends | 8213 |
| Tornado | One single-threaded frontend | 3353 |
| Django | Apache/mod_wsgi | 2223 |
| web.py | Apache/mod_wsgi | 2066 |
| CherryPy | Standalone | 785 |
Modules
- An asynchronous MongoDB driver called Motor.
- CouchDB drivers called corduroy and trombi.
- Asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL wrapping psycopg called Momoko
See also
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