graphql-rest-comparison

Repository made to compare graphql and rest.

Prerequisites

• nix installed
• docker

How to run the project

The easiest way to run the project is runnning nix develop . which sets up whole environment and then running ./run_benchmarks.sh script which spins up necesarry containers, starts server and runs tests.

To manually run the project use docker compose up -d && sleep 5 && cd seedData && bun install && bun run main.ts command then open two terminals. Start server in one cd server && bun install && bun run index.ts and run benchmarks in the other one cd benchmark; bun install && bun run rest.ts && bun run graphql.ts

avg results after 10 benchmark runs

naive rest

• Avg time: 69.58s
• Avg Requests per second: 14.37
• Total response size: 81MB

naive graphql

• Avg time: 25.46s
• Avg Requests per second: 39.26
• Total response size: 18.03MB

optimized rest

• Avg time: 1.99s
• Avg Requests per second: 500.25
• Total response size: 19.34MB

optimized GraphQL

• Avg time: 2.27s
• Avg Requests per second: 438.78
• Total response size: 18.23MB