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Introduction to Hive Router

Hive Router is a high-performance GraphQL Federation router built with Rust. It serves as the entry point for GraphQL requests in your federated setup, routing them efficiently across your subgraph services.

Why Hive Router?

When you’re running a federated GraphQL architecture, your router becomes one of the most important pieces of your infrastructure. It needs to be fast, reliable, and handle real-world production traffic without breaking a sweat. Here’s what makes Hive Router a solid choice:

  • Speed matters. Built with Rust, Hive Router is designed for performance and minimal resource usage. Your API calls won’t get bogged down by router overhead.
  • Production-ready. Rust’s safety guarantees mean you get a router that handles concurrency well and won’t crash under heavy load.
  • Open source, no strings attached. MIT licensed and fully open source. Use it anywhere, modify it however you need, and avoid vendor lock-in.
  • Feature-complete. Get security, traffic management, and modern federation features without hunting for plugins or add-ons.

Want to learn more about why we built this? Check out our introductory blog post.

Performance Benchmarks

We’ve put Hive Router through its paces against other federation gateways to see how it performs under real-world conditions.

See the full results and testing methodology: Federation Gateway Performance Comparison.

Federation Compatibility

Hive Router works with the standard GraphQL Federation specification. We run comprehensive tests to make sure it plays nicely with the rest of the federation ecosystem.

Check out our compliance testing: Federation Gateway Audit.

Getting Started

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