Benchmark: JSON Query Comparison

HTML Preparation code:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jsonata@1.5.4/jsonata-es5.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jspath@0.4.0/jspath.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jmespath/0.15.0/jmespath.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="https://prototype.imin.co/eventseries-sample.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://meta.imin.co/v2.js"></script>

Script Preparation code:

var get = p => o =>
   p.reduce((xs, x) => {
   	if (Array.isArray(xs)) {
     	return xs.map(get([x])).filter(y => y !== null).flat();
     } else {
  	   	return (xs && xs[x]) ? xs[x] : null;
     }
   }, o);

function flattenCollection(collectionIndex) {
	if (collectionIndex.type === 'imin:CollectionIndex') {
    return Object.entries(collectionIndex['imin:index']).reduce(function(map, [k,v]) {
        map[k] = flattenCollection(v);
        return map;
       }, {});
  } else if (collectionIndex.type === 'imin:Collection') {
  	return collectionIndex['imin:item'].reduce(function(map, item) {
        map[item.id] = item;
        return map;
       }, {});
  } else {
  	return collectionIndex;
  }
}

Tests:

jsonata
var jsonataResult = jsonata('subEvent.offers.acceptedPaymentMethod').evaluate(result).join(' ');
simple
var simpleResult = get(['subEvent','offers','acceptedPaymentMethod'])(result).join(' ');
jspath
var jsPathResult = JSPath.apply('.subEvent.offers.acceptedPaymentMethod', result).join(' ');
jmespath
var jmespathResult = jmespath.search(result, 'subEvent[].offers[].acceptedPaymentMethod[]').join(' ');
control
result.subEvent.map(s => s.offers.map(o => o.acceptedPaymentMethod)).flat(2).join(' ')
jspath+predicates
var jsPathResult = JSPath.apply('."imin:aggregateOffer".publicAdult{.price > 0 && .priceCurrency > "."}[-1]', result);
meta-index
var jsPathResult = JSPath.apply('."imin:index"(.subClass | .enumeration).."imin:item"', window.imin.v2.meta);
meta-nameonly
var jsPathResult = JSPath.apply('."imin:index"(.subClass | .enumeration)..name', window.imin.v2.meta);
meta-flatten
var result = flattenCollection(window.imin.v2.meta);

Rendered benchmark preparation results:

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Previous results

Test case name	Result
jsonata
simple
jspath
jmespath
control
jspath+predicates
meta-index
meta-nameonly
meta-flatten

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Latest run results:

Run details: (Test run date: 6 years ago)

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.67 Safari/537.36

Browser/OS: Chrome 70 on Mac OS X 10.12.6

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Test name	Executions per second
jsonata	4899.1 Ops/sec
simple	96776.2 Ops/sec
jspath	462071.5 Ops/sec
jmespath	166062.9 Ops/sec
control	243051.2 Ops/sec
jspath+predicates	966001.1 Ops/sec
meta-index	1491307.1 Ops/sec
meta-nameonly	1504333.2 Ops/sec

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):

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The provided JSON represents a set of benchmark tests for comparing different libraries and approaches to query JSON data in JavaScript.

**Library Overview**

1. **jsonata**: A JSON querying language that allows you to query JSON data using a simple syntax.
2. **simple**: A custom implementation by the creator of MeasureThat.net, which uses a reduce function to traverse the JSON data.
3. **jspath**: A library inspired by XPath (XML Path Language) that allows you to query JSON data using a similar syntax to XML.
4. **jmespath**: A JSON-specific variant of XPath that is optimized for querying JSON data.

**Library Comparison**

Each test compares the performance of one or more libraries and approaches when querying JSON data. The results are represented as a series of objects, each containing information about the benchmark run, such as:

* `TestName`: The name of the benchmark test.
* `RawUAString`: The User Agent string reported by the browser during the benchmark run.
* `Browser`, `DevicePlatform`, and `OperatingSystem`: Information about the browser and device used during the benchmark run.
* `ExecutionsPerSecond`: The number of executions per second for each library or approach.

**Approach Comparison**

The tests compare different approaches to querying JSON data, including:

1. **jspath**: Uses a syntax similar to XML XPath to query JSON data.
2. **jmespath**: Optimized for querying JSON data using a syntax inspired by XPath.
3. **simple**: A custom implementation by the creator of MeasureThat.net, which uses a reduce function to traverse the JSON data.
4. **jsonata**: Uses a simple syntax to query JSON data.

**Key Insights**

* jmespath and jspath are optimized for querying JSON data and outperform the other libraries in many cases.
* jsonata is relatively slow compared to the other two, but still performs well.
* The custom implementation by MeasureThat.net (simple) is slower than jmespath and jspath.

Overall, these benchmarks provide a comprehensive comparison of different libraries and approaches for querying JSON data in JavaScript, allowing developers to choose the best option for their specific use case.

Related benchmarks:

JSON Query Comparison (version: 9)

Comparison of various JSON Querying libraries

Comparing performance of: jsonata vs simple vs jspath vs jmespath vs control vs jspath+predicates vs meta-index vs meta-nameonly vs meta-flatten

Created: 6 years ago by: Registered User

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jsonata

simple

jspath

jmespath

control

jspath+predicates

meta-index

meta-nameonly

meta-flatten

Suite status: <idle, ready to run>

Experimental features:

Fastest: N/A

Slowest: N/A

Autogenerated LLM Summary (model llama3.2:3b, generated 2 months ago):