Benchmark: libmysql vs mysqlnd

A few days ago I found out about the existence of the MySQL Native Driver (mysqlnd) that has been introduced in php 5.3, it is a replacement for libmysqlclient and it is licensed under the PHP license, therefore avoiding the need of the FOSS License Exception.

The purpose of this article isn’t explaining what mysqlnd is and what it does, for that you can start by reading the official documentation and this nice blog post.

I did these benchmarks mostly because I couldn’t find any proper comparison between the two drivers and I wanted to know which driver I should be using on all the servers I manage (performance-wise), I then figured that making this public could be useful to someone else, so here it is.

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