A performance comparison of web programming interfaces: GraphQL, gRPC and Thrift

This article presents a comparative performance comparison of three technologies commonly used to implement web programming interfaces: GraphQL, gRPC and Thrift. For the purposes of this study, three applications were developed, each utilizing one of the selected technologies. The applications were tested using JMeter. The execution time and data volume returned during operations performed on a relational database were measured. The results showed that gRPC was the fastest choice for the shortest execution time for large-scale read operations, while GraphQL and Thrift were faster for operations transporting small volumes of data.