Benchmark Percona vs. Mysql

MySQL 5.5.8 versus Percona Server 5.5.7

December 2010 Vadim Tkachenko benchmarked MySQL 5.5.8, the newest high-performance release from Oracle, against Percona Server 5.5.7 beta in an OLTP workload similar to TPC-C. Key results:

• Percona Server is more than 40% faster than MySQL in overall throughput.
• Percona Server performance remains more stable over time than MySQL, which still experiences sharp drops in throughput due to checkpointing activity.

MySQL 5.5.4 versus Percona Server 5.1

April 2010 Vadim Tkachenko benchmarked MySQL 5.5.4, the newest high-performance release from Oracle, against Percona Server 5.1.54 in an OLTP workload similar to TPC-C. Key results:

• Percona Server is more than 10% faster than MySQL in overall throughput.
• Percona Server's performance is much more stable over time than MySQL's, which experiences sharp drops due to checkpointing activity when the data is larger than the buffer pool.
• MySQL's performance is much better than previous releases.