We're trying to close the performance gap. Current performance on sysbench can be found here:

https://docs.dolthub.com/sql-reference/benchmarks/latency

We're even slower on heavy transactional use cases.

We're dedicating the year to it and we think we can get under 2X MySQL. We have customers who switched from other No-SQL DBs and actually got faster so getting close to MySQL is a great accomplishment.