- Oracle has significantly invested in MySQL by growing the development team to hundreds of engineers, making it the largest team in MySQL's history.
- MySQL 5.6 represents the most innovative release of MySQL in many years, with major performance, scalability, and feature enhancements across InnoDB, replication, and other components.
- Key new capabilities in MySQL 5.6 include optimizations for read-only workloads, online DDL, dump/restore of InnoDB buffer pool, and full text search on InnoDB tables.