ABSTRACT
With the growth of mobile devices claiming an increasing share of
internet traffic, optimizing data search performance becomes important.
REST architecture has been the most common solution to
developWeb APIs, but GraphQL is becoming, recently, an attractive
alternative. This paper discusses the REST and GraphQL techniques
for data communication between Web applications. An experiment
is also performed, to evaluate the performance of APIs implementing
REST and GraphQL when requesting nested objects. Prototypes
of each API were implemented to perform measurements of each
technique’s performance. Results show that GraphQL performed
better in the most evaluated scenarios.