About

This project compares the speed of different Node.JS csv parsers.

To start

$ git clone https://github.com/Keyang/csvbench
$ npm install .
$ node ./index.js

Procedure

All parsers will simply do following

1. stream in 1.csv and start to parse
2. get content from 1st column of each row and write to a file

1.csv contains 300K lines

Result

Here is some result running on a 2013 Macbook Pro:

$ node ./index.js
fast-csv: 5248.767ms
csv: 3798.266ms
csvtojson: 948.493ms
$ node --version
v6.9.1