...MyDumper is Open Source and maintained by the community, it is not a Percona, MariaDB or MySQL product. Parallelism (hence, speed) and performance (avoids expensive character set conversion routines, efficient code overall) Easier to manage output (separate files for tables, dump metadata, etc, easy to view/parse data) Consistency - maintains snapshot across all threads, provides accurate master and slave log positions, etc. Manageability - supports PCRE for specifying database and tables inclusions and exclusions.