Criteria\Tool HP LoadRunner OpenSTA Jmeter

Ease of use Simple Simple Complex

Supports http/s, HTTP 1.0 / 1.1 / HTTP,FTP,

Protocols
Siebel, Oracle NCA and HTTPS SOAP/XMLRPC,
Supported
many more (SSL), SOAP/XML JDBC

Limited users. Can

Can simulate close to Can simulate close to 2000
Virtual Users easily simulate 100
1000 users per users per machine of 1 GB
Supported users per machine
machine of 1 GB RAM. RAM.
of 1 GB RAM.

Number of
Load
Less Less More
Generators
required

Load Injection
Yes Yes No
from Agent

Thread based
Yes No Yes
support

Very Simple. Single

Script Single Stepping option is Difficult. No single
Stepping option is
Debugging available. stepping.
available.

SCL.(Script control
C++/Java. Cookie
language) Easy to learn and
Scripting management can
C supports string manipulation
Language still be done using
and supports direct DOM
the console.
addressing.

External Editors will

Vugen console is avl OpenSTA modeler is avl for
Script Editor be required for
for scripting. scripting.
script modification.

Result Collation Simple & Reliable Time consuming Time consuming

Result
Very fine granularity of Results in tabular format
Reporting & Poor result quality.
results and graphs are available.
Analysis