Performance benchmarks for JsonPath-PHP

JsonPath-PHP is a PHP extension that makes it easy to work with data arrays using the JSONPath notation. Here we compare the performance of the JSONPath-PHP extension against similar types of libraries in PHP as well as the equivalent data lookups written in native PHP code.

Test subjects

• Native PHP (considered as the baseline for comparison)
• JsonPath-PHP extension [GitHub]
• JSONPath for PHP library by SoftCreatR [GitHub] [Packagist]
• JsonPath library by Galbar [GitHub] [Packagist]

Datasets

• Tiny dataset (1 row, filesize < 1kB)
• Medium dataset (3 532 rows, filesize 1.2MB)
• Huge dataset (72 733 rows, filesize 63MB)

The datasets are built from datasets provided by the Tate Collection.

Usage

To run the benchmark tests:

1. Clone the repository.
2. Run composer install to install the dependencies.
3. Run ./vendor/bin/phpbench run --report=overview to perform the benchmarks.

The benchmark tests can take a minute or two to run, depending on your setup.

License

MIT.