MySQL 5.7 delivers a 3x speed injection

MySQL 5.7 promises speeds as much as three times faster than those of version 5.6. Specifically, in benchmark tests using SysBench Read-only Point-Selects and with 1,024 connections, MySQL 5.7 delivered 1.6 million queries per second, Oracle said.

“This is very competitive against other databases,” said Tomas Ulin, Oracle’s vice president of MySQL engineering. “These kinds of improvements come from removing internal bottlenecks in the software.”

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