i want to know about nodejs vs. java . why nodejs is better performance than java

i want to know about nodejs vs. java . I want to know if I need to measure time elapsed then Single Threaded Program is good approach or Multithreading Program is a good approach for that.Why nodejs is better performance than java. why in nodejs using single threaded-asynchronous and in java multithreaded-synchronous process.

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