This means no benefit over regular MySQL releases, not to say that MySQL doesn't have some nice features.
InnoDB can read/write in multiple threads - which is useful on RAID controllers which require concurrency to exploit all their throughput. Newer SSDs also like concurrent writes. Compare this to at least MongoDB which uses a single reader/writer thread.
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"No benefit for HDD bound workloads"
This means no benefit over regular MySQL releases, not to say that MySQL doesn't have some nice features.
InnoDB can read/write in multiple threads - which is useful on RAID controllers which require concurrency to exploit all their throughput. Newer SSDs also like concurrent writes. Compare this to at least MongoDB which uses a single reader/writer thread.