MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema BenchmarkSo far most of the benchmarks posted about MySQL 5.6 use the sysbench OLTP workload. I wanted to test a set of queries which, unlike sysbench, utilize joins. I also wanted an easily reproducible set of data which is more rich than the simple sysbench table. The Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) seems ideal for this. I wasn’t going to focus on the performance of individual queries in this post, but in
