Hi John ,
I didnt go into performance becrause it's such a hard subject to do correctly. There are people that have careers testing just that. FWIW, in my working with MySQL it seems to perform pretty well. Event under stressed hardware situations. These are all unscientific benchmarks though.
Thanks
Rodman
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