jeffreyflores / node-graphql-benchmarks

Benchmarks for different Node.js GraphQL Servers

TL;DR

• graphql-jit helps
• apollo-server adds overhead
• tracing resolvers kills performance

Explanation

For further details, please check out this video.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/benawad/benchmarks
cd benchmarks
npm install
npm start

Benchmarks

duration: 5.05s connections: 5 pipelining: 1

Server	Requests/s	Latency	Throughput/Mb
fastify-REST	5486.8	0.35	43.88
fastify-gql+graphql-jit	5437.2	0.34	33.87
express-REST	4278.2	0.53	34.49
graphql-api-koa+graphql-jit	2817.8	1.34	17.55
express-graphql+graphql-jit	2374.2	1.57	14.94
fastify-gql	2367.0	1.58	14.74
express-graphql+graphql-jit+type-graphql	2176.2	1.72	13.70
apollo-server-fastify+graphql-jit	1740.6	2.33	10.88
graphql-api-koa	1726.8	2.50	10.76
express-graphql	1564.0	2.79	9.84
apollo-schema+async	1555.8	2.79	9.79
express-graphql+type-graphql	1481.0	2.90	9.32
type-graphql+async	1455.8	2.93	9.16
type-graphql+middleware	1452.0	2.94	9.14
type-graphql+async-middleware	1409.4	3.01	8.87
apollo-server-fastify	1383.6	3.10	8.64
express-graphql-dd-trace-no-plugin	1311.0	3.28	8.25
apollo-server-express	1238.6	3.45	7.83
apollo-opentracing	913.8	4.92	5.78
apollo-server-express-tracing	736.8	6.26	23.46
express-graphql-dd-trace	606.0	7.76	3.81