REST or GraphQL? A Performance Comparative Study

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REST or GraphQL? A Performance Comparative Study Marcos Nazário @gustavopinto
Gustavo Pinto Matheus Seabra

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? @gustavopinto

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HTTP @gustavopinto REST

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@gustavopinto

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@gustavopinto GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863

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@gustavopinto GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/points

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@gustavopinto https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/author/ GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/author

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@gustavopinto https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/when/ GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/when

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@gustavopinto https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/flag POST https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/flag

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@gustavopinto https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/author/hide POST https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/hide

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@gustavopinto GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863/comments

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@gustavopinto GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863

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@gustavopinto { "by": "pg", "descendants": 54, "id": 126809, "kids": [
126822, 126823, 126917, 126993, 126824, 126934, 127072, 127217, 126889, 126875, 127535 ], "score": 47, "time": 1204403652, "title": "Poll: What would happen if News.YC had explicit support for polls?", "type": "poll" "score" : 25, "text" : "or HN: the Next IterationI get the impression that with Arc being released a lot of people who never had time for HN before are suddenly dropping in more often. (PG: what are the numbers on this? I'm envisioning a spike.)Not to say that isn't great, but I'm wary of Diggification.80% of the stuff that makes the front page is still pretty awesome, but what's in place to keep the signal/noise ratio high? Does the HN model still work as the community scales? What's in store for (++ HN)?", "time" : 1203647620, "title" : "Ask HN: The Arc Effect", "type" : “story" "text" : "Yes, ban them; I'm tired of seeing Valleywag stories on News.YC.", "time" : 1207886576, "type" : "pollopt" "parts": [ 126810, 126811, 126812 ] } GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863

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@gustavopinto { "by": "pg", "descendants": 54, "id": 126809, "kids": [
126822, 126823, 126917, 126993, 126824, 126934, 127072, 127217, 126889, 126875, 127535 ], "score": 47, "time": 1204403652, "title": "Poll: What would happen if News.YC had explicit support for polls?", "type": "poll" "score" : 25, "text" : "or HN: the Next IterationI get the impression that with Arc being released a lot of people who never had time for HN before are suddenly dropping in more often. (PG: what are the numbers on this? I'm envisioning a spike.)Not to say that isn't great, but I'm wary of Diggification.80% of the stuff that makes the front page is still pretty awesome, but what's in place to keep the signal/noise ratio high? Does the HN model still work as the community scales? What's in store for (++ HN)?", "time" : 1203647620, "title" : "Ask HN: The Arc Effect", "type" : “story" "text" : "Yes, ban them; I'm tired of seeing Valleywag stories on News.YC.", "time" : 1207886576, "type" : "pollopt" "parts": [ 126810, 126811, 126812 ] } GET https://hacker-news.ﬁrebaseio.com/v0/post/8863

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@gustavopinto GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8863 GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8864 GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8865 GET https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/post/8866

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@gustavopinto GraphQL Developed by Facebook Publicly released on 2015

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@gustavopinto GraphQL Developed by Facebook Publicly released on 2015 GraphQL
allows clients to deﬁne the structure of the data required, and exactly the same structure of the data is returned from the server, therefore preventing excessively large amounts of data from being returned “ ”

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@gustavopinto type Query {  topStories(limit: Int): [Story] }

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{ "data": { "hn": { "topStories": [ { "title": "Monte
Carlo methods Why it's a bad idea to go to the casino" }, { "title": "Public Domain Movies" }, { "title": "Agent 355" } ] } @gustavopinto type Query {  topStories(limit: Int): [Story] }

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Research Questions RQ: Which architectural model is the most efﬁcient
in terms of performance? @gustavopinto

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APP1 APP2 APP3 RocketBox TechTeams MyFeed @gustavopinto

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APP1 APP2 APP3 RocketBox TechTeams MyFeed (Dropbox simplified) (Trello simplified)
(Twitter simplified) @gustavopinto

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APP1 APP2 APP3 Rest Rest Rest RocketBox TechTeams MyFeed (Dropbox
simplified) (Trello simplified) (Twitter simplified) @gustavopinto

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APP1 APP2 APP3 Rest GraphQL Rest GraphQL Rest GraphQL RocketBox
TechTeams MyFeed (Dropbox simplified) (Trello simplified) (Twitter simplified) @gustavopinto

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TechTeams MyFeed (Dropbox simplified) (Trello simplified) (Twitter simplified) 350 LoC 270 LoC 471 LoC 388 LoC 171 LoC 265 LoC @gustavopinto

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TechTeams MyFeed (Dropbox simplified) (Trello simplified) (Twitter simplified) 350 LoC 270 LoC 471 LoC 388 LoC 171 LoC 265 LoC JavaScript @gustavopinto

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network overhead Rest GraphQL Client @gustavopinto

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GraphQL Client Rest @gustavopinto

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GraphQL Client Rest GraphQL Client @gustavopinto

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GraphQL Client Rest GraphQL 1 2 3 100 requests 1000
requests 3000 requests { 15x Client 1, 10, 100 users 1, 500, 1000 users 1, 1000, 3000 users Intel Core i7, 2.20GHz, 8 cores, 16 GB memory, running Ubuntu Linux @gustavopinto

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Size of the document @gustavopinto

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Size of the document No reduction @gustavopinto

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Size of the document No reduction Reduction in 100% of
the cases @gustavopinto

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the cases Reduction in 50% of the cases @gustavopinto

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the cases Reduction in 50% of the cases @gustavopinto

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Time per request (ms) @gustavopinto

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REST or GraphQL? A Performance Comparative Study

REST or GraphQL? A Performance Comparative Study

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