Daninet / go-vs-node-benchmark

Which REST backend is faster

Go vs Node.js REST backend benchmark 2020

Go v1.14 + Fiber v1.13.3 + PostgreSQL v12.3

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Node.js v14.6.0 + Fastify v3.1.1 + PostgreSQL v12.3

Results

		Concurrency 10	Avg. latency	Concurrency 100	Avg. latency	Concurrency 250	Avg. latency
	Hardcoded JSON	100.9 %	99.0 %	51.4 %	196.0 %	56.3 %	177.6 %
	JWT creation	86.0 %	116.4 %	49.3 %	202.9 %	49.2 %	202.9 %
	Validate JWT	76.3 %	131.4 %	45.1 %	221.2 %	45.7 %	218.9 %
	Query single row	29.2 %	342.5 %	25.4 %	394.1 %	24.3 %	411.0 %
	Query multiple rows	45.4 %	220.1 %	40.6 %	244.4 %	37.7 %	255.7 %
	Query and sort mutliple rows	47.6 %	209.5 %	42.1 %	236.0 %	34.3 %	275.1 %

Raw measurements

		Concurrency 10	Avg. latency	Concurrency 100	Avg. latency	Concurrency 250	Avg. latency
	Hardcoded JSON - Node.js	34 866 req/s	0.285 ms	51 544 req/s	1.94 ms	53 514 req/s	4.67 ms
	Hardcoded JSON - Go	34 552 req/s	0.288 ms	100 369 req/s	0.99 ms	94 970 req/s	2.63 ms
	JWT creation - Node.js	28 611 req/s	0.348 ms	35 900 req/s	2.78 ms	36 113 req/s	6.92 ms
	JWT creation - Go	33 256 req/s	0.299 ms	72 849 req/s	1.37 ms	73 355 req/s	3.41 ms
	Validate JWT - Node.js	23 313 req/s	0.427 ms	27 408 req/s	3.65 ms	27 637 req/s	9.04 ms
	Validate JWT - Go	30 570 req/s	0.325 ms	60 710 req/s	1.65 ms	60 518 req/s	4.13 ms
	Query single row - Node.js	6 148 req/s	1.62 ms	6 260 req/s	15.96 ms	5 913 req/s	42.21 ms
	Query single row - Go	21 062 req/s	0.473 ms	24 651 req/s	4.05 ms	24 336 req/s	10.27 ms
	Query multiple rows - Node.js	352 req/s	28.37 ms	319 req/s	308 ms	285 req/s	836 ms
	Query multiple rows - Go	775 req/s	12.89 ms	785 req/s	126 ms	755 req/s	327 ms
	Query and sort mutliple rows - Node.js	324 req/s	30.78 ms	300 req/s	328 ms	241 req/s	960 ms
	Query and sort multiple rows - Go	680 req/s	14.69 ms	713 req/s	139 ms	703 req/s	349 ms

Test environment

• Bare metal PC with i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz
• OS: Debian 10 (buster)
• Running Docker containers (JS and Go backend + Postgres v12)
• Measurements over Gigabit LAN from a different PC using bombardier.