Differences between JMeter and Apache Benchmark

Question

I've been using JMeter for a long time and during my research, I came across Apache Benchmark, which seemed a bit more simple load testing tool to me.

So my assumption is that; Apache Benchmark is more suitable choice for benchmarking one API at a time. And it won't be a good choice -and maybe impossible- for performing an end-to-end load test.

But I am also curious about if A/B has any kind of advantages over JMeter in terms of performance / benchmark testing.

Could you please explain?

Thanks...

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10260526/which-gets-the-measurements-right-jmeter-or-apache-ab/10264501#10264501 — Ori Marko, Nov 15 '21 at 07:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '21 at 07:48

When it comes to "hammering" the endpoint with simple HTTP Requests ab can be suitable alternative to JMeter as long as you're fine with the following limitations:

no control regarding how connections are used/re-used
no support of other authentication types than Basic (digest, NTLM, Kerberos)
no control of DNS caching
no clustered mode of tests execution
missing metrics like connect time, TTFB, etc. and in general results are quite "poor" comparing to JMeter's HTML Reporting Dashboard

The only advantage of ab I can think of is lower CPU/Memory footprint

Differences between JMeter and Apache Benchmark

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