{
  "id": 2339295,
  "title": "MariaDB 10.6 to 13.0 for WordPress: Only One Upgrade Actually Does Anything [Benchmark]",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/mariadb-10-6-to-13-0-for-wordpress-only-one-upgrade-actually-does",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-21T08:15:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/make-wp-fast/mariadb-106-to-130-for-wordpress-only-one-upgrade-actually-does-anything-benchmark-1hfn"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "MariaDB 10.6 to 13.0 for WordPress: Minimal Upgrade Benefits\n\nAfter my March post comparing MariaDB 10.11 and 11.4, a reader asked if upgrading from 10.6.27 to 10.11 made a noticeable difference. The short answer was no, and now that 10.6 has reached end-of-life, it's worth considering an upgrade, even if it's just to 10.11. I decided to run a benchmark to compare six versions of MariaDB against WordPress 7.1, PHP 8.4.24, WooCommerce 11.0.1, and a dataset with 1,000 posts, 200 products, 5,000 comments, and 101 users.\n\nThe benchmark results showed only minor differences between versions. Moving from 10.6 to 10.11 resulted in only a 2-3% increase in performance, and upgrading to 11.4 improved performance in some areas, such as the UPDATE with subquery and DATE() on indexed columns. However, the overall impact was minimal, with only a few queries showing a noticeable improvement.\n\nUpgrading to 12.3.2 and 13.0 had no significant impact on performance. The only consistent difference was that 10.6 served fewer requests per second compared to 10.11, but the difference was small and not worth noting.\n\nIn summary, upgrading MariaDB from 10.6 to 10.11 or further only resulted in minimal performance improvements. The significant gains come from optimizing queries and using the appropriate version for your specific use case.",
  "summary": "Originally published on https://makewpfast.com/mariadb-versions-wordpress-benchmark/ Someone read my March post about MariaDB 10.11 vs 11.4 and asked a fair question: they’re on 10.6.27, they never noticed any difference moving to 10.11, and a client wants to update. Is it worth it? Short answer for that specific hop: no, you won’t feel it. But 10.6 hit end of life on July 6, 2026, so the update…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}