There's the Fortunes benchmark, that involves reading off a database: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=fortune https://www.te

There's the Fortunes benchmark, that involves reading off a database: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=fortune https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=... Something to observe from those benchmarks is that "fast" languages are still fast in those benchmarks. The server isn't waiting on I/O 100% of the time - it still has to do serialization and parsing and all other CPU-bound tasks, and those still benefit from a "faster" language.