Sysbench vs MariaDB on a small server: using the same charset for all versions

This has results for sysbench vs MariaDB on a small server. I repeated tests using the same charset (latin1) for all versions as explained here . In previous results I used a multi-byte charset for modern MariaDB (probably 11.4+) by mistake and that adds a 5% CPU overhead for many tests. tl;dr MariaDB has done much better than MySQL at avoid regressions from code bloat. There are several…