Maria Engine Performance once again

Note: Article has been edited as I was confusing MarisDB and the Maria Stoare Engine!

Just for the heck of it, I decided to try a very simple benchmark on the Maria Storage Engine again. This time, I'm using a simple SELECT. The table I use looks like this:
CREATE TABLE `t1` (
`c1` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`c2` char(100) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
);
Which should be simple enough. I fill this with 1.3 millions rows, with c1 having consequitive numbers from 1 and up. My benchmark consists of random SELECTs of the c2 column from this table, using a primary key lookup on c1. I run this on 400 concurrent threads with each thread doing 1000 SELECTs. Ignoring the actual values, MyISAM and InnoDB come out pretty close in performance, with InnoDB slightly behind. Which is reasonable. Maria is at less than half the performance of MyISAM though. This is worrying. And I know what you say, Maria is new, performance comes later. I say performance comes mainly from design. As Maria does not have proper transactions yet, only row level transactions (not statement level. Try to stop a INSERT INTO ... SELECT FROM and you see what I mean).

I was hoping for more from Maria. As I tested MariaDB 5.1.47, I could also test PBXT. This particular test is hardly targeted at what PBXT is good at though, and I didn't even have the energy to wait for it to finish a single round of this test.

In this case, in difference to before, I did some basic tuning. Maria proved difficult here, as there is no documentation on the parameters, at least none that I could find.

Note: All tests run using MariaDB 5.1.47, including the ones involving InnoDB, MyISAM and PBXT.

/Karlsson