What’s the connection between databases and fruit
flies?
Some of you may be familiar with the bestseller in business
literature The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies
Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Harvard professor Clayton
Christensen. In his book, Prof. Christensen compared disk drives
to fruit flies. The comparison relates to the rapid changes that
disrupted the disk drive industry for decades. That disruption is
compared to the rapid changes that take place to fruit flies that
live only for few hours, and for this reason researchers can
study and analyse their behaviour.
In the software business, you can replace disk drives with
databases. Obviously, databases live longer than fruit flies, but
it is an industry that sometimes shows schizophrenic changes.
Whilst it is true that relational databases have being dominated
the scene for decades, readers with grey hair and reading glasses
have …
yeah , big buzz around that one
So I decided to check the install process:
root@webscalesql-5.6.clean:[Mon Mar 31 11:37:11][~]$ cd /opt/ root@webscalesql-5.6.clean:[Mon Mar 31 11:37:15][/opt]$ mkdir installs root@webscalesql-5.6.clean:[Mon Mar 31 11:37:17][/opt]$ cd installs/ root@webscalesql-5.6.clean:[Mon Mar 31 11:37:19][/opt/installs]$ git clone https://github.com/webscalesql/webscalesql-5.6.git Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/installs/webscalesql-5.6/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 30397, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (12678/12678), done. remote: Total 30397 (delta 18716), reused 27620 (delta 16936) Receiving objects: 100% (30397/30397), 47.99 MiB | 460 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (18716/18716), done.
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[Read more]On Thursday MySQL technology saw a huge boost. It’s hard for anyone now to argue that MySQL isn’t in the game of extreme scalability and performance, which some NoSQL vendors have been using as a tagline for the last years. To see four of the largest MySQL and MariaDB users come together to bootstrap a branch of MySQL for extreme scaling needs is simply fantastic. The improvements done inside these companies will now be available to the rest of the community. In all fairness Facebook and Twitter, in particular, have been making their improvements publicly available also before. Google has also made some improvements available publicly over the years and have lately been active in the MariaDB project with code reviews, bug fixes and other patches. But broadening the public contributions further and combining it all, is new.
Engineering of MySQL technology happens in many places. Aside from Oracle and the companies behind WebScaleSQL, …
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At Percona Live, Steaphan Greene and I will talk about MySQL 5.6
and WebScaleSQL at Facebook.
2 April 1:20PM - 2:10PM @ Ballroom E
http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/mysql-56-facebook-2014-edition
In addition to that, I have two more talks this year.
Performance Monitoring at Scale
3 April 2:00PM - 2:50PM @ Ballroom G
http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2014/sessions/performance-monitoring-scale
Global Transaction ID at Facebook
4 April …