In the last post, we discussed how CouchDB’s external query server works by examining the raw protocol. In this post, we’re going to take a look at the performance of different query servers. The code used in this benchmarking is here. I listed below the method of the benchmark in detail. If you want you can jump to conclusion. The Setup The benchmarks are done on my laptop (Intel 6th-gen i7 processor, 8G RAM, SSD) with CouchDB 1.