In this blog post, we’ll discuss ProxySQL versus MaxScale for OLTP RO workloads.
Continuing my series of READ-ONLY benchmarks (you can find the other posts here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/04/07/mysql-5-7-sysbench-oltp-read-results-really-faster/ and https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/03/28/mysql-5-7-primary-key-lookup-results-is-it-really-faster), in this post I want to see how much overhead a proxy adds. At this
In my opinion, there are only two solid proxy software options for MySQL at the moment: ProxySQL and MaxScale. In the past, there was also MySQL Proxy, but it is pretty much dead for now. Its replacement, MySQl Router, is still in the very early stages …
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