This blog examines MySQL 5.7’s primary key lookup results, and determines if MySQL 5.7 is really faster than its early versions.
MySQL 5.7 was released some time ago, and now that the dust has settled it’s a good time to review its performance improvements.
I’m not doing this just to satisfy my own curiosity! Many customers still running MySQL 5.6 (or even MySQL 5.5) often ask “How much performance gain we can expect by switching to 5.7? Or will it actually be a performance hit, especially after Peter’s report here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2013/02/18/is-mysql-5-6-slower-than-mysql-5-5/?”
To determine the answer, we’ll look at some …
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