Tag: mysql

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• Postgres vs MySQL under load: reads, writes, updates and one open transaction

  6 Nov, 2026

  PostgreSQL 18 and MySQL 9.7 LTS behind the same Go shop on identical 2 vCPU machines, loaded with k6 until each one fails. Every run's result, the settings, why secondary index lookups cost InnoDB more, HOT updates, and the long transaction that turned the result around.