io.js vs. Hoodie vs. Phalcon

io.js is a JavaScript platform built on Chrome's V8 runtime. This project began as a fork of Joyent's Node.js and is compatible with the npm ecosystem.

We want to enable you to build complete web apps in days, without having to worry about backends, databases or servers, all with an open source library that's as simple to use as jQuery.

Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.