You can usually increase your performance greatly just by tuning your existing SQL and database. Run Apache::DProf or the DBI profiler, find out where the time is being spent, and work on it. There are many resources for database performance tuning. Work on the actual queries and schema structure, not on the database configuration. You always get more from the former than the latter.
Particularly, the algorithms in the code, and you can sometimes(lots of times) CACHE the results of SQL queries overtop of the "query cache/result cache" on the DB itself aka Serialized to disk, or per process / request.
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