MySQL and MariaDB on NVMe Storage – The Great Equalizer Continuing with the checkpointing topic I restarted a month ago with MongoDB , followed with PostgreSQL , and then with MySQL and MariaDB on Enterprise SSD Storage , this time let’s take a look at how MySQL and MariaDB perform on NVMe storage. Benchmark To evaluate MariaDB and MySQL, I will use sysbench-tpcc with 1000 Warehouses. The hardware I use is: System | Supermicro; SYS-F619P2-RTN; v0123456789 (Other) Platform | Linux Release | Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (bionic) Kernel | 5.3.0-42-generic Architecture | CPU = 64-bit, OS = 64-bit Threading | NPTL 2.27 SELinux | No SELinux detected Virtualized | No virtualization detected # Processor ################################################## Processors | physical = 2, cores = 40, virtual = 80, hyperthreading = yes Models | 80xIntel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.10GHz Caches | 80x28160 KB # Memory ##################################################### ...