drupal as mobile app backend Im currently using drupal 7 + commerce for online sales and I have a phonegap app that creates orders. I want to use drupal 7 via a the services module to sync the app sales data with the online store. My concern is speed as drupal requires a full bootstrap for each service call. Is there another recomended way to access the drupal 7 commerce database directly that would perform the crud operations faster?
Not sure if "faster" but I'd recommend the integration of Drupal Commerce and Phonegap (I'm guessing you're using DrupalGap already) if you're already using both: https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_drupalgap

You've got plenty of resources there to get started such as the Commerce Services module.

It's up to you to decide where you need or not a full bootstrap of your backend, I'm thinking you need it to get advantage of user access, permissions and consistency check in your order status, but it depends a lot on your app and where  you're implementing the business logic. If you access the database directly, without any bootstrap is going to be faster, but the same way you build a drupal site, if you bypass Drupal to access directly to the database that'd be faster as well.