Disclaimer: I'm the author of Nawak, so I'm pretty excited about this.

The Nimrod programming language is finally featured for the db tests (at least on i7. Not sure what happened with ec2 and peak, as neither jester nor nawak seem to appears in the results).

It fares pretty well when the database is involved.

Look for the nawak micro-framework, in the top 10 both for fortunes:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=i7...

and updates:

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=i7... )

And there is room to grow. That micro-framework will not be the best for the json or plaintext tests, but once the database needs to be involved, it is trivial to add more concurrency: firing up more workers (1-3meg each in RAM) acts as an effective database connection pool (1 database connection per worker).

edit: Why should you care? Nawak (https://github.com/idlewan/nawak) is a clean micro-framework:

  import nawak_mongrel, strutils

  get "/":
      return response("Hello World!")

  get "/user/@username/?":
      return response("Hello $1!" % url_params.username)
  
  run()

Benchmark implementation in 100 lines here: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...