TL;DR

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

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: 60.14s connections: 100 pipelining: 5

Server	Requests/s	Latency	Throughput/Mb
rust-graphql	66804.8	7.00	391.47
bun-yoga-jit	13934.5	35.38	94.31
go-graphql	13567.7	36.36	79.78
uWebSockets-graphql+jit	12364.5	39.93	83.33
core-graphql-jit-str	9154.3	54.11	61.95
core-graphql-jit-buf	9120.5	54.31	61.73
benzene-jit-http	8756.6	56.58	59.69
apollo-schema+async	8589.9	57.69	2.38
graphql-http+middleware	8576.5	57.78	2.37
graphql-http	8567.2	57.85	2.37
graphql-http+type-graphql	8566.9	57.84	2.37
graphql-http+async-middleware	8429.6	58.80	2.33
graphql-compose+async	8415.9	58.90	2.33
graphql-http+graphql-jit+type-graphql	8415.1	58.90	2.33
graphql-http+async	8388.3	59.09	2.32
graphql-http+graphql-jit+graphql-compose	8350.7	59.35	2.31
core-graphql-jit-buf-fjs	8251.5	60.06	55.85
fastify-REST	8247.3	60.11	76.00
graphql-http+graphql-compose	8227.7	60.25	2.28
graphql-http+graphql-jit	8157.3	60.77	2.26
bun-yoga	8132.2	60.96	55.04
graphql-http-dd-trace-no-plugin	7920.7	62.60	2.19
mercurius+graphql-jit	7624.2	65.06	51.95
mercurius+graphql-jit+type-graphql	6446.1	77.03	43.92
graphql-http-dd-trace	5410.9	91.85	1.50
graphql-http-dd-trace-less	5313.5	93.52	1.47
express-REST	4988.7	99.66	46.28
benzene-http	4776.6	104.11	32.56
mercurius+graphql-jit+otel-instrumentation	4717.1	105.42	32.14
mercurius+graphql-compose	4468.4	111.31	30.44
mercurius	4400.1	113.05	29.98
graphql-api-koa+graphql-jit	4223.8	117.78	28.75
yoga-graphql	3815.7	130.43	25.99
graphql-api-koa	3046.7	163.43	20.73
apollo-as-integrations-fastify+graphql-jit	2722.3	182.94	18.61
apollo-as-integrations-fastify+graphql-jit+type-graphql	2652.8	187.71	18.14
apollo-as-integrations-fastify	2578.5	192.82	17.63
apollo-as-koa-integrations+graphql-jit+type-graphql	2385.0	207.45	16.41
apollo-server-express-tracing	2131.1	230.22	14.77
apollo-server-express	2116.2	231.06	14.67
apollo-opentracing	0.0	0.00	0.00
express-gql	0.0	0.00	0.00
fastify-express-graphql-jit	0.0	0.00	0.00
fastify-express-graphql-typed-jit	0.0	0.00	0.00
fastify-express-grapql-typed	0.0	0.00	0.00