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Speed contests (Score:2)
Tatsu [perl.org] has been running performance tests. On updates it's about 70% of the speed of MySQL (latest release), but on selects it's faster. At least I think that's what he found.
The biggest problem now is the transaction model, which appears to prevent new connections when in a transaction. Very bad.