[smandou]

The Play app uses MySql in a blocking way, while Nodejs uses mongo. It's not comparable.

[bhauer]

We have a pull request that changes the Play benchmark (thank you!) so we will be including that in a follow-up soon.

We tested node.js with both Mongo and MySQL. Mongo strikes us the more canonical data-store for node, but wanted to include the MySQL test out of curiosity.

[nobleach]

That is bad benchmarking!