There shouldn't be much of a difference in performance, there are some areas on the server we can improve in the longer run and hope is that clients can write r

There shouldn't be much of a difference in performance, there are some areas on the server we can improve in the longer run and hope is that clients can write requests more efficiently ... in a typical situation the parsing of the query hopefully isn't the bottleneck, but the actual execution or processing of the result in the application ;-)