InnoDB Performance and Scalability Enhancements
This section discusses recent InnoDB enhancements to performance and scalability, covering the performance features in MariaDB 5.5 and higher, and in the InnoDB Plugin for MariaDB 5.1. This information is useful to any DBA or developer who is concerned with performance and scalability. Although some of the enhancements do not require any action on your part, knowing this information can still help you diagnose performance issues more quickly and modernize systems and applications that rely on older, inefficient behavior.