The document discusses new features in MySQL 8.0, including a MySQL document store for working with JSON documents, improved JSON support with new functions, full Unicode support, and a transactional native data dictionary. Performance tests showed MySQL 8.0 was 40% faster than MySQL 5.7 for a read-only OLTP workload using utf8mb4. Additional features included in MySQL 8.0 are common table expressions, window functions, and configuration changes to make MySQL more cloud friendly.