RESTvsGRPC

Evaluating Performance of REST vs. gRPC

dotnet run -p RestAPI.csproj -c Release

Starts the ASP.NET MVC Core REST API

dotnet run -p GrpcAPI.csproj -c Release

Starts the GRPC Service

dotnet run -p RESTvsGRPC.csproj -c Release

Runs the benchmark on the above services

Benchmark for .NET Core 3.0

BenchmarkDotNet=v0.11.5, OS=Windows 10.0.18362
Intel Core i7-7820HQ CPU 2.90GHz (Kaby Lake), 1 CPU, 8 logical and 4 physical cores
.NET Core SDK=3.0.100
  [Host]     : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), 64bit RyuJIT
  DefaultJob : .NET Core 3.0.0 (CoreCLR 4.700.19.46205, CoreFX 4.700.19.46214), 64bit RyuJIT

Method	IterationCount	Mean	Error	StdDev
RestGetSmallPayloadAsync	100	14.15 ms	0.2825 ms	0.5706 ms
RestGetLargePayloadAsync	100	1,279.23 ms	21.4717 ms	22.0498 ms
RestPostLargePayloadAsync	100	1,644.70 ms	20.9949 ms	19.6386 ms
GrpcGetSmallPayloadAsync	100	18.67 ms	0.3727 ms	0.7779 ms
GrpcStreamLargePayloadAsync	100	1,677.17 ms	30.6976 ms	39.9155 ms
GrpcGetLargePayloadAsListAsync	100	208.17 ms	4.0576 ms	7.6211 ms
GrpcPostLargePayloadAsync	100	207.18 ms	4.0394 ms	10.7820 ms
RestGetSmallPayloadAsync	200	27.87 ms	0.5561 ms	1.0308 ms
RestGetLargePayloadAsync	200	2,579.35 ms	33.2682 ms	29.4914 ms
RestPostLargePayloadAsync	200	3,303.59 ms	37.9533 ms	33.6446 ms
GrpcGetSmallPayloadAsync	200	37.04 ms	0.7390 ms	1.5749 ms
GrpcStreamLargePayloadAsync	200	3,229.51 ms	62.5833 ms	52.2599 ms
GrpcGetLargePayloadAsListAsync	200	421.68 ms	8.3405 ms	16.4633 ms
GrpcPostLargePayloadAsync	200	399.98 ms	7.9921 ms	21.3324 ms