A stripped down version of Django - no unnecessary apps installed. This was recommended to test Django's full speed but really wouldn't be reflective of a full deployment.
It's disappointing that it's so slow. I suppose it doesn't matter a lot of the time, but would prefer it to be more competitive.
In the previous benchmark it was pointed out that they don't use connection pooling [1], I don't know is it fixed in this round
They don't say either way but it requires them to switch to Postgres so I think they would have said if they had.
That's correct; we are still testing on MySQL, so the Django tests are still configured without a connection pool. We would love a pull request that incorporates a connection pool for Django+MySQL. We do have Postgres as a target for future rounds of this project, but do not yet have an ETA for that.