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title: "Queries per second"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queries_per_second"
category: "reference"
tags: "science, encyclopedia"
date_saved: "2026-05-05T11:37:49.614549+00:00"
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Queries per second (QPS) is a measure of the amount of search traffic an information-retrieval system, such as a search engine or a database, receives in one second. The term is used more broadly for any request–response system, where it can more correctly be called requests per second (RPS).
High-traffic systems must be mindful of QPS to know when to scale to handle greater load.


== See also ==
Transactions per second


== References ==