MySQL 8.4.3 and 9.1.0: Major Performance Gains Revealed
Percona is an open source database software, support, and services company that helps make databases and applications run better.
At Percona, we’ve always prioritized performance, and recent trends in MySQL’s development have been a point of concern for us. In particular, the performance deterioration in the MySQL 8.4.x and 9.y versions caught our attention, as highlighted in Marco Tusa’s insightful blog post, Sakila, Where Are You Going ?
We’re pleased to report that the latest releases 8.4.3 and 9.1.0 (released in October 2024) demonstrate noteworthy performance improvements, as shown in table one below.
For detailed information about our testing methodology, the sysbench workloads used, and the hardware configuration, please see our previous blog post: Percona Server for MySQL Performance Improvements – August 2024 .
Intrigued, we delved deeper into the source of these optimizations and identified three key changes responsible for these enhancements.
