“Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced new benchmark results
involving the performance of the open source MySQL database running
online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on 8-way Sun Fire
V40z servers. The testing, which measured the performance of both
read/write and read-only operations, showed that MySQL 5.0.18
running on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) executed the same
functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91
percent faster in read-only mode than when it ran on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS…”