From 23 hours to under 8 minutes.
That’s how long it took to index Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, subgraph vs Substreams, in a benchmark run by BuildersDAO (
@GraphBuilders). 182x faster, on 75 parallel workers.
On Base: 94 hours down to 2h 06m. Push to 300 workers and it’s 56 minutes — 100x.
We just built the SQL sink straight into the Substreams CLI: one binary, pass a package and the mode is auto-detected.
Migrating is painless: cursors and schemas are unchanged, so no re-sync.
The Substreams skill for AI coding agents knows the new commands too.
Full breakdown + benchmark tables, and thanks to The Graph’s BuildersDAO for running this experiment: