MySQL Conference 2010 Day 1
What’s New in MySQL 5.5? Performance Unleashed! – slides Default storage engine is InnoDB (what had been called the InnoDB plugin, but now is the only version). Many locks and mutexes held back scalability in 5.1. Biggest win was fixing uses of LOCK_open. It was used for many things, some of which made no sense. Introduced… Read More »