Comparing MariaDB and MySQL with a CPU-bound Insert Benchmark on a new small server. The song remains the same ...

MySQL has big regressions over time
+ MariaDB does not
=
Modern MariaDB is faster than modern MySQL

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TIL that transactions with DynamoDB do not extend to replication apply for global tables. How does that work out in practice?

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Modern MariaDB is faster than modern MySQL on the Insert Benchmark with a cached & some-concurrency workload on a small server.

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