Loadrunner Vs Jmeter Vs NeoLoad with Table and Differences
Source: LoadRunnerz

 

Criteria	Loadrunner	Jmeter	NeoLoad
Commercial License	Yes	No (Open Source Tool and has Good Online Community Support)	Yes
Launched By	HP	Apache Foundations	Neotys/NeoLoad
Protocol Coverage	It supports more than 30 protocols including enterprise software SAP	Focus primarily on HTTP and Java-related protocols (JMS, JDBC).Also supports FTP, LDAP, SOAP.	NeoLoad has good support of more than 40 Protocols. It supports enterprise Applications SAP, Oracle Siebel etc.
Record and Playback capability	Yes	Yes	Yes
Image Based Recognition	Yes	Yes	Yes
Text Based Recognition	Yes	Yes	Yes
Real Time Test Monitoring	Yes	Minimum	Yes
Result Reporting	Yes	Minimum Support(No GUI Graphs - Need to use additional tools/plugins for graphs)	Yes
Cost	Expensive	Free	Low when compared with the Loadrunner
Load Generation	Depending on Type of License	Unlimited Load Generation	Depending on Type of License
IPSpoofing	Yes	No	Yes
Cloud Based Solution	Yes	No	Yes
Browser Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Firefox Browser	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chrome Browser	Yes	Yes	Yes
Internet Explorer Browser	Yes	Yes	Yes
Device OS Support	Yes	Yes	Yes
Android  4.1	Upto 4.0.3	Yes(with additoinal plugins)	Yes
Android  4.1	Yes	Yes(with additoinal plugins)	Yes
Access to Device Logs	Yes	Yes	Yes
Support to PC OS	Yes	Yes	Yes
Windows XP and above	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mac OSX	No	Yes	No
Linux	Yes(Only Load Generators)	Yes	Yes
Parallel Execution on Multiple Devices	Yes	Yes	Yes

Apache JMeter Advantages and Disadvantages

Pros
Highly portable and supports 100% all the Java based apps Less scripting efforts as compared to other tools because of its user friendly GUI Simple charts and graphs sufficient for analyzing key load related statistics and resource usage monitors. Supports Integrated real-time, Tomcat collectors for Monitoring  Cons

Cannot record HTTPS Communication Cannot intercept the AJAX traffic Is not capable of monitoring any of Application server related statistics Reporting framework has very limited features Source:Guru99

Open Source Tools for Performance Testing...

Load test tools:

• The Grinder 3.11
• Gatling 2.0.0
• Tsung 1.51
• JMeter 2.11

Feature	The Grinder	Gatling	Tsung	JMeter
OS	Any	Any	Linux/Unix	Any
GUI	Console Only	Recorder Only	No	Full
Test Recorder	TCP (including HTTP)	HTTP	HTTP, Postgres	HTTP
Test Language	Python, Clojure	Scala	XML	XML
Extension Language	Python, Clojure	Scala	Erlang	Java, Beanshell, Javascript, Jexl
Load Reports	Console	HTML	HTML	CSV, XML, Embedded Tables, Graphs, Plugins
Protocols	HTTP SOAP  JDBC POP3 SMTP  LDAP JMS	HTTP JDBC JMS	HTTP  WebDAV Postgres MySQL XMPP  WebSocket AMQP MQTT LDAP	HTTP FTP JDBC SOAP LDAP TCP JMS SMTP POP3 IMAP
Host monitoring	No	No	Yes	Yes with PerfMon plugin
Limitations	Python knowledge required for test development & editing Reports are very plain and brief	Limited support of protocols Scala-based DSL language knowlegde required Does not scale	Tested and supported only on Linux systems.	Bundled reporting isn’t easy to interpret

 

RESOURCES

1. The Grinder - http://grinder.sourceforge.net/
2. Gatling - http://gatling.io/
3. Tsung - http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
4. JMeter   http://jmeter.apache.org/
   
   
   
   
   Source: Blazemeter