For comparison, here's a scalability benchmark for postgres (also read-only) from a year and a half ago: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-h

For comparison, here's a scalability benchmark for postgres (also read-only) from a year and a half ago: http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-how-about-64.html http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2012/04/did-i-say-32-cores-how-abo... It's hard for me to tell what the MySQL benchmark was really doing, but the postgres one seems a bit more "normal" (ordinary SQL queries from postgres's ordinary simple benchmark tool). So, not apples-to-apples, but still interesting.