Queries per second

Queries per second (QPS) is a common measure of the amount of search traffic an information retrieval system, such as a search engine or a database, receives during one second. The term is used more broadly for any request–response system, more correctly called requests per second (RPS). Queries per second (QPS) is a common measure of the amount of search traffic an information retrieval system, such as a search engine or a database, receives during one second. The term is used more broadly for any request–response system, more correctly called requests per second (RPS).