Only the query compiler is in pure Python and you only hit that once per query, as the compilation result is trivially cached. The hot path is a combination of

Only the query compiler is in pure Python and you only hit that once per query, as the compilation result is trivially cached. The hot path is a combination of Cython, C and Rust. We have a suite of benchmarks [1] that show relative overhead of EdgeDB compared to raw Postgres is quite low. [1] https://github.com/edgedb/imdbench https://github.com/edgedb/imdbench