Oracle set to launch MySQL 5.5 GA release

Benchmark tests showed the release candidate gaining up to 1,500 per cent performance gains for read-write operations and up to 500 per cent on read-only operations when run on Windows, opposite to MySQL 5.1. Linux performance grew up to 360 per cent for read-writes and 200 per cent for read-only, according to Oracle.

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