How is Apache APISIX Fast?

• apisix-benchmark

  2 1 0.0 Shell
  

Performance benchmarks (vs. Kong, Envoy) confirm these characteristics are indeed accurate (test yourself).

• lua-resty-ipmatcher

  1 120 1.6 Lua

  High-performance match IP address for Nginx + Lua

  

Under the hood, APISIX uses the lua-resty-ipmatcher library to implement this functionality. The example below shows how the library is used:

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• lua-resty-radixtree

  2 244 5.3 C

  Adaptive Radix Trees implemented in Lua / LuaJIT

  

APISIX uses the lua-resty-radixtree library, which wraps around rax, a radix tree implementation in C. This improves the performance compared to implementing the library in pure Lua.

• etcd

  63 46,588 9.9 Go

  Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

  

APISIX uses etcd to store and synchronize configurations.

• rax

  2 1,092 0.0 C

  A radix tree implementation in ANSI C

APISIX uses the lua-resty-radixtree library, which wraps around rax, a radix tree implementation in C. This improves the performance compared to implementing the library in pure Lua.

• apisix

  64 13,778 9.5 Lua

  The Cloud-Native API Gateway

  

But the best part is that the libraries mentioned here and Apache APISIX are entirely open source, meaning you can look under the hood and modify things yourself.

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