What's New in MySQL 5.5

This white paper provides a look at what's new in MySQL 5.5, including greatly improved performance, scalability, and usability specifically on today's modern, multi-processing hardware, software, and middleware architectures. Sysbench benchmarks demonstrate performance improvements of up to 370% and 540% faster performance on Linux and Windows respectively. Also, new Semi-synchronous Replications and MySQL Performance Schema provide developers and DBAs with improved tools for building high performance, scalable applications.