Not every parsing is equal. MySQL and other databases produce a tree as they parse a query. If you just want to match parameters you can avoid memory allocation

Not every parsing is equal. MySQL and other databases produce a tree as they parse a query. If you just want to match parameters you can avoid memory allocations and just replace parameters with ^ or @ signed in place in the query string. http://developers.memsql.com/docs/1b/faq.html http://developers.memsql.com/docs/1b/faq.html gives some more details.