Is performance important for you, along with the latest features and long-term support? Go with MariaDB 11.4. But don’t take our word for it. We asked well known benchmarking expertMark Callaghan to check out a number of MariaDB and MySQL releases, hit them hard with a tool of his choice, and share his findings.

MariaDB’s performance is stable over the years

The outcome: On the low concurrency load (high concurrency results are being prepared),MariaDB maintained stable performance over the last 10 years and 14 releases, while MySQL performance dropped almost by a third.

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Remember our open letter,Looking for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 guinea pigs?

We caught a nice German guinea pig!

We caught a nice guinea pig, a German one, from Hannover. They are currently using MySQL 5.7 (as was our prime wish), and they will be doing a live migration to MariaDB 10.11. They have 1.000.000.000 queries a day, their database size is 412 GB, and our goal is to the migration of the production data in less than five minutes – during ourMariaDB Migration Workshop at our pre-FOSDEM event on Friday 2 Feb 2024.

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Dear users of MySQL 5.7 (or 8.0)!

Are you interested in getting help migrating to MariaDB 10.6 or 10.11, the latest long-term support releases? Are you coming toBrussels forFOSDEM in February? Do you have an open attitude, not minding to show a bit of dirty laundry in front of other users?

Then you may be a perfect candidate for ourMariaDB Migration Workshop at our pre-FOSDEM event onFriday 2 Feb 2024. The workshop will be led by none other than the father of both MySQL Server and MariaDB Server, namelyMichael “Monty” Widenius.

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