Run results for: JSON Query Comparison

Run details:

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: Chrome 70

Operating system: Mac OS X 10.12.6

Device Platform: Desktop

Date tested: 5 years ago

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	243051.3 Ops/sec
jspath+predicates	966001.1 Ops/sec
meta-index	1491307.0 Ops/sec
meta-nameonly	1504333.0 Ops/sec

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);

Run results for: JSON Query Comparison

Comparison of various JSON Querying libraries

jsonata

simple

jspath

jmespath

control

jspath+predicates

meta-index

meta-nameonly

meta-flatten