Benchmarks

mydborm vs SQLAlchemy vs Peewee (MySQL)

Operation	mydborm	SQLAlchemy	Peewee	Winner
Single insert x1000	11.0s	4.1s	7.8s	SQLAlchemy
Bulk insert x5000	0.24s	0.29s	0.33s	mydborm
Select all x1000	0.032s	0.010s	0.119s	SQLAlchemy
Filter x1000	0.023s	0.007s	0.103s	SQLAlchemy
Update x1000	0.011s	0.013s	0.007s	Peewee

mydborm: MySQL vs YugabyteDB

Operation	MySQL	YugabyteDB	Faster
Single insert x1000	11.0s	8.4s	YugabyteDB
Bulk insert x5000	0.24s	0.45s	MySQL
Select all x1000	0.032s	0.060s	MySQL
Update x1000	0.011s	0.219s	MySQL

Key takeaway

Use bulk_create() for large datasets — mydborm is the fastest at bulk inserts. For single-row inserts, wrap in db.transaction() for a 3x speedup.