关键词: SOAP Web服务, REST Web服务, 性能比较

Abstract: With the rapid development of services computing, an increasing number of Web services have been published on the Internet, spanning a wide range of application domains. Among these Web services, SOAP Web services and REST Web services are two most popular types of Web services, which have been widely used in industries. However, there is still a lack of empirical comparisons between these two kinds of Web services on their practical performances. Towards this issue, this paper uses a publically accessible dataset crawled from Programmable Web to conduct several experiments for comparing them. In order to get more reliable results, experiments are conducted in three different geographical locations, including China, France and USA. Experimental results show that REST Web services are generally better than SOAP Web services in the aspects of response time, package size, and throughput.

Key words: SOAP Web service, REST Web service, performance comparison