Client-API round trips matter, because the latency is very high. API-DB latency will be much lower, so the number of round trips there is less important. GraphQ

Client-API round trips matter, because the latency is very high. API-DB latency will be much lower, so the number of round trips there is less important. GraphQL allows you to query any nested structure in one Client-API round trip, but there may be many API-DB round trips per query.