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: 5s connections: 5 pipelining: 1

Server	Requests/s	Latency	Throughput/Mb
go-graphql	49168.0	0.01	81.68
uWebSockets-graphql+jit	13061.6	0.02	80.36
core-graphql-jit-str	9383.2	0.04	58.33
core-graphql-jit-buf	9272.8	0.04	57.65
core-graphql-jit-buf-fjs	9144.8	0.04	56.83
benzene-http	9050.4	0.04	56.69
mercurius+graphql-jit	8790.0	0.04	55.03
fastify-REST	7885.2	0.07	63.23
mercurius+graphql-compose	5355.6	0.29	33.54
express-REST	5333.2	0.16	43.10
graphql-api-koa+graphql-jit	5306.0	0.28	33.18
mercurius	5249.2	0.30	32.87
mercurius+graphql-jit+type-graphql	5040.4	0.31	31.56
express-gql	4674.0	0.35	29.56
fastify-express-graphql-jit	4658.8	0.36	1.28
fastify-express-graphql-typed-jit	4375.0	0.41	1.20
express-graphql+graphql-jit+graphql-compose	4058.0	0.48	25.67
express-graphql+graphql-jit	4038.0	0.48	25.54
graphql-api-koa	3790.2	0.74	23.70
express-graphql+graphql-jit+type-graphql	3727.0	0.99	23.57
apollo-server-koa+graphql-jit+type-graphql	3674.6	0.67	23.00
fastify-express-grapql-typed	3492.6	1.25	0.96
express-graphql	3198.6	1.27	20.22
express-graphql+graphql-compose	3138.2	1.27	19.85
express-graphql+type-graphql	3076.6	1.27	19.45
apollo-schema+async	3068.2	1.27	19.40
express-graphql-dd-trace-no-plugin	3049.8	1.27	19.28
graphql-compose+async	3010.6	1.28	19.04
type-graphql+middleware	2928.6	1.27	18.52
type-graphql+async	2777.4	1.32	17.56
type-graphql+async-middleware	2755.8	1.34	17.43
apollo-server-express	2486.2	1.48	15.80
apollo-opentracing	1700.0	2.70	10.81
express-graphql-dd-trace-less	1562.0	2.64	9.88
express-graphql-dd-trace	1530.6	2.81	9.68
apollo-server-express-tracing	1505.6	2.87	47.90
yoga-graphql-trace	185.0	30.14	0.08
apollo-server-fastify+graphql-jit	0.0	0.00	0.00
apollo-server-fastify	0.0	0.00	0.00

Prerequisites

To run all the benchmarks, you need to have go and bun in your terminal.