Windows Subsystem For Linux / WSL2 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Apache's CouchDB does a good job of showing the better I/O performance of WSL2 compared to the original WSL implementation.

Cases like PostgreSQL show you likely don't want to be running any heavy I/O workloads under Windows Subsystem for Linux, but at least WSL2 with its more hypervisor like approach does help in making some I/O workloads less painful.

After WSL1 was very slow with Redis, WSL2 offers comparable Redis 6 performance to bare metal Ubuntu.