+1 to this. These kinds of benchmarks of the actual execution of a server are almost never useful for actual production loads—it's always going to be the database or external services.

It's the same kind of thing as Express.js competitors showing that their routing logic handles 50k requests per second instead of Express's 25k, but only for "simple" use cases—AKA ones that don't involve a database. You should almost never be evaluating a server on these parameters.