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by ergo14 3253 days ago
How do people solve performance problems with GraphQL?

I can imagine that it can be quite slow internally with multiple joins/subqueries in the datastore.

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It depends on how you write your joins, PostgreSQL does a great job as long as you have the right indexes in place, certainly much faster than doing sequential queries.

My take on it https://subzero.cloud (GraphQL and REST api for your database), built on top of https://postgrest.com