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It would be interesting to do this same comparison with MariaDB.

I wonder if that project has managed to continue progressing while MySql seems to have regressed.

It's super easy for all of us on HN to say "Oh look Oracle ruined another thing". But it would much more interesting to have quantified results to compare from.

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Blog author here. I think that Oracle has been the best corporate owner for MySQL, much better than Sun and standalone MySQL.

I write these posts to document & market the problem and motivate upstream and my team to make things better. I don't think they are ruining MySQL.

As a Postgres user, something I find our community keeps hammering is MySQL's reluctance to do things safely. Be that fsyncing, or what, I'm never entirely sure.

I don't mean to further smear MySQL, just point out that this might not be a regression. It might be MySQL fixing bigger issues in default configurations. Spending 18% raw performance might be worth it.

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