GraphQL Federation Benchmarks

Comparison of a different GraphQL Federation Gateways.

Find out more about Wundergraph Federation Gateway here

Benchmark results

Sample command to run benchmarks:

hey -z 10s -c 100 -m POST -H 'content-type: application/json' -D queries/small.json 'http://localhost:9991/graphql'

Name	Slowest	Fastest	Average	Req/sec	P95 (Latency)
Wundergaph Graphql Endpoint	0.0767 secs	0.0001 secs	0.0034 secs	29297.45 (100%)	0.0068 (100%)
Wundergraph RPC Endpoint	0.4944 secs	0.0001 secs	0.0043 secs	23042.64 (-21.35%)	0.0071 (+4.41%)
Apollo Router	0.1663 secs	0.0046 secs	0.0248 secs	4021.6 (-86.27%)	0.0377 (+454.41%)
Mercurios	0.1330 secs	0.0263 secs	0.0346 secs	2884.91 (-90.15%)	0.0437 (+542.65%)
Apollo Gateway	0.2480 secs	0.0553 secs	0.0920 secs	1085.75 (-96.29%)	0.1173 (+1625%)
Graphql Mesh	0.5075 secs	0.0698 secs	0.2566 secs	387.79 (-98.68%)	0.3369 (+4854.41%)

Tests were done on the MacBook Pro (16-inch, Apple M1 Pro, 2021) with 16GB of RAM

More detailed results could be found in the results directory.

Prerequisites

You need to have install the next tools:

• Go 1.17+
• Hey
• Taskfile
• Npm
• Curl

How to run

Default command

task

This command will run default task from the Taskfile.yml file, which includes setuping every gateway, running benchmarks and generating reports.

Available commands

You may list all possible tasks with the following command:

task --list-all

Taskfile is splitted into smaller files responsible for different tasks, e.g. setup, benchmark, query, subgraphs, run