Great news was announced today at the Collaborate 11 conference
today; the first development milestone release of MySQL
5.6.2 is now available to the MySQL Community! This is
significant because 5.6.2 builds on the momentum generated by the
performance, scalability, InnoDB and Replication improvements
that rolled out in version 5.5 just last Dec. It also marks
somewhat of a paradigm shift in how the MySQL Engineering team
delivers new, defined sets of stable, development complete
features (development "milestones") and cutting edge, currently
under development, delivered early and often features via
http://labs.mysql.com/. Both options provide a means for
Community users to begin using new versions and, more
importantly, new features of MySQL very early on ensuring the
final product has undergone the highest degree of testing,
validation and hardening before we deem it production
ready.
Some of …
The O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 is upon us again and
I'm here in Santa Clara for the next week to attend. I want to
thank my company, realestate.com.au / REA Group for sending me for my second year.
I'm also enjoying the big Chineese proxy investment that has
resulted in the AUD passing parity with the greenback resulting
in everything being cheap here.
I'm attending the full suite and here are the talks I'm most
looking forward to:
* Yoshinori Matsunobu's Linux and H/W optimizations for
MySQL.
I was at one of Yoshinori's talks last year and he provided a
very concise performance review of solid state vs fusion-IO.
realestate.com.au are looking to move into a more virtual
infrastructure and I see Yoshinori will be talking about virtual
performance in this talk.
…
Issue addressed:
- Process over 10 million log entries per day without partitions or other workarounds.
MySQL + TokuDB Tames Huge Logfile Processing Workload
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The Challenge: Jawa is experiencing tremendous growth as it provides critical billing infrastructure to mobile gaming and payment applications for third party solutions. Part of this requires the maintenance and analysis of hundreds of gigabytes of logfiles …
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Memcached is a simple solution for tough scalability problems.
MySQL Cluster is a telco-grade network data store. Both are
capable of performance far beyond what a relational database
(even as good of one as MySQL) usually delivers. But memcached
always relies on some other technology to persistently store
data, and while MySQL Cluster can deliver exceptional
throughput and response times, making it do so has not always
been easy.
So, people have long discussed the idea of putting the two
together, and I've been lucky enough to spend the past six months
working on it.
Continue reading "MySQL Cluster and Memcached:
Together at Last"
Only few more hours, it is almost here. The long awaited Reference Architecture from SkySQL is going to make its first appearance at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara this week.
SkySQL is going to contribute to the evolution and innovation of MySQL from both coasts of the United States. A total of 10 between presentations, tutorials and events will help the MySQL users in Santa Clara and in Orlando in understanding how they can leverage the use of MySQL, improve performance, scalability and high availability. You can find the complete schedule of the MySQL UC and Collaborate 11 here (UC) and here (C11). Regarding the SkySQL …
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The internet really is full of stuff, and we are starting to fill
the Clouds with all sorts of software that moves from the
serverrooms and in to the clouds. One aspect here that is often
missing is what a Cloud environment and the Internet in itself
can add to what we already know and have. Or in other words,
running in the cloud is not only about lowering costs, and if you
look at it by lowering costs by running things in the cloud the
same way you used to run it on your private server, then chances
are you might not gain anything, running in a cloud is also about
having distinct advantages not easily available somewhere
else.
Christopher Ahlberg here at Recorded Future just blogged about
another way of looking at it: What do we have access to on the
internet that is not readily available in the Server room, and
the answer is: data. A lot of data. For someone in the field of
BI, not using Internet data, and sticking to traditional …
The announcements at the Oracle Collaborate and O’Reilly MySQL conferences mark an exciting milestone in the development of the MySQL Cluster database.
MySQL Cluster is already proven as a write-scalable, real-time transactional database, combining 99.999% availability with the low TCO of open source. With a distributed, multi-master architecture and no single point of failure, MySQL Cluster scales horizontally on commodity hardware to serve read and write intensive workloads.
With these enhancements announced in the Development Milestone Release, MySQL Cluster can be extended to serve a broader range of workloads.
The MySQL Installer for Windows radically simplifies the installation process for all MySQL users on the Windows platform. It only takes minutes from downloading the MySQL Installer to having a ready to use MySQL system on your machine.
An easy to use - wizard based - UI will guide you through the installation process. You can select which products you want to have installed on your machine. After the file installation you can configure your system and setup your MySQL server.
MySQL Installer also helps you to keep your system up-to-date by offering a simple "Check for Updates" feature. If you choose to run this feature the MySQL Installer will connect to the MySQL.com webpage to check if new versions of your MySQL products are available. Those will then be downloaded and installed with a single mouse click.
The MySQL Installer will run on all Windows platforms that are supported by MySQL.
With MySQL 5.5 generally available and being deployed all over the planet, the architects and strategists can start looking ahead to the exciting new thing with "SQL" in its name: MySQL 5.6.
MySQL 5.6 builds on the momentum of 5.5, and Oracle's investment and commitment to MySQL, by delivering better performance and scalability.
The ever increasing performance demands of web-based services has generated significant interest in providing NoSQL access methods to MySQL - enabling users to maintain all of the advantages of their existing relational database infrastructure, while providing blazing fast performance for simple queries, using an API to complement regular SQL access to their data.
The HandlerSocket development at DeNA is a great example of community innovation, with a solution implemented as a custom plug-in and protocol for the MySQL server daemon.
We are hearing the community say they want NotOnly SQL - they want their trusted SQL RDBMS - plus, they want NoSQL techniques to access that data. So, we are previewing our NotOnlySQL solution for MySQL - delivered via memcached - with implementations to access both the InnoDB and MySQL Cluster (NDB) storage engines.