Today we're announcing MySQL 5.6 RC availability, which is placing MySQL 5.6 to the "best ever MySQL" position, kept until now by MySQL 5.5 ;-))

In one word: "Champagne !!!" :-)

While few graphs with benchmark results will say you it better than any words...

Sysbench OLTP_RO

NOTE: the results are presented in QPS (query per second, counting only Read + Write requests/sec reported by Sysbench), and representing the most higher QPS results obtained on each MySQL version for each test case with a best tunning possible in each case, and on the same Linux 32cores server...