Hi there! Has anyone here ever run a performance benchmark between Cerbos and any other available solution (like Casbin or OPA, for example) and would be willing to share the results? thanks!

Hey. We are quite confident and proud of Cerbos' performance and resource fingerprint because that's something that has always been a core value in our design. That being said, I am not sure that side-by-side performance comparisons are quite that useful. Although these are all authz solutions, they are quite different in terms of how they tackle the problem. So, it's not necessarily an apples-to-apples comparison. There are lots of infrastructure and implementation details that are hard to control for in a pure side-by-side performance benchmark and the results you get will not mean much unless you're building an HFT system or something similar where nanosecond differences are critical. While performance is absolutely important, other factors such as the simplicity and architecture of the solution, effort required for implementation and maintenance, documentation, testability, extensibility, scalability, observability, and security should be equally as important as well.

hi @Charith (Cerbos), thanks for the response I totally agree with you, there are many variables to be taken in consideration. We've already decided to go forward with cerbos, based mostly on these other concepts you mentioned (implementation and maintenance, ease of use, scalability, adherence to our infrastructure, and so on). But regardless of that, a simple comparison of throughput for example would share some light on how Cerbos performs in high demand environments