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One million queries per second with MySQL

Knowing your database can scale provides great peace of mind. We built PlanetScale on top of Vitess so that we could harness its ability to massively scale. One of the core strengths in our ability to scale is horizontal sharding. To demonstrate the power of horizontal sharding, we decided to run some benchmarking. We set up a PlanetScale database and started running some benchmarks with a common tpc-c sysbench workload. We weren’t aiming for a rigorous academic benchmark here, but we wanted to

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