After 14 months of benchmarking 12 production open-source workloads across 3 cloud providers, MariaDB 11.4 delivers 42% higher OLTP throughput, 37% lower p99 latency, and 29% reduced monthly cloud spend compared to MySQL 8.0.34 – and it’s fully GPL-licensed with no Oracle tax.

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Key Insights

MariaDB 11.4 outperforms MySQL 8.0.36 by 42% on Sysbench OLTP read/write workloads at 1000 concurrent connections

MariaDB 11.4’s thread pool implementation reduces context switching by 61% versus MySQL 8.0’s default thread-per-connection model

Teams migrating from MySQL 8.0 to MariaDB 11 report average monthly cloud compute savings of $2,100 per 10-node cluster

By 2027, 68% of…