The Tokutek/Sunfish entry into the next America’s Cup promises to bring the America’s cup back to the USA’s east coast. The sailboat, named '; Update Race set time=1 where Team='Tokutek (we’re trying to win using a SQL injection attack) features a single-hull pontoon-type hull carrying a lateen sail mounted to an un-stayed mast. The fiberglass hull carries a crew of one or two. The double-plus secret keel technology features a daggerboard keel, an overall length of 4.22m, a beam of 1.24m, and a hull weight of 59kg. The 6.0m2 mainsail provides a D-PN of 100.7, and an on-board computer comprising an Android in a zip-lock sandwich bag running MySQL with TokuDB.

April 1, 2010, Totutek, Inc., announced the acquisition of Oracle Corporation. “Tokutek has long been a supporter of open-source software” said John Partridge, CEO of Tokutek. “Oracle is an innovative small company the develops database front ends such as MySQL. Tokutek intends to continue developing the MySQL technology and expand our commitment to open-soure software.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s role has not been determined. Other than a statement that the transaction is an all-stock transaction, terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

So, Open Query is going to move to Silicon Valley. We all know there’ve been a few booms (and accompanying busts), but it is -still- where much of the big business of the online (and thus database) world is; and particular with projects/products like OQGRAPH, it makes sense for us now. Of course we can (and) do our other services from anywhere, but it’s quite important to be local to more of our clients – can’t beat face-to-face contact, right?

About half of our people will be in Santa Clara for the upcoming MySQL conference anyway, so that’s also an excellent time to meet (we don’t, often, in real life) and plan ahead.

More later.

April Fools! We aren’t switching to Lisp (as much as we love the language). We couldn’t resist having a bit of fun.

Over the past few months we’ve had many architectural discussions about the future of database technology. It quickly became apparent to us that C++, the language we used to develop RethinkDB, is not sufficiently expressive to build the next-generation database product. We realized that in order to design the database system of the future, we need to use a programming language of the future as well.

We did a quick survey of programming languages and eventually narrowed down our choices to Erlang, Haskell, and Common Lisp. Two years ago, Damien Katz of CouchDB laid out the reasons why Erlang is a poor choice for database products. Many of his arguments resonated with us, and we made a wise decision not to …

I'll be speaking at IPC Spring in Berlin between May 31 and June 2 this year. My talk is on MySQL partitioning. It will have more information than the talk I did at ConFoo in March. The talk will be on Tuesday, June 1st.

If you're in or around Berlin at that time, drop in.

OSScamp returns to Chandigarh within 6 months for a splendid show on April 10th, 2010, at Chitkara Educational Trust, Chandigarh. Organized by the will and initiative of two 14 year old school kids, OSScamp Chandigarh has also received a good response from the tech community in Chandigarh and promises to be a grand FOSS event in the city. OSScamps are India's premier FOSS Unconference - an informal/casual event where the emphasis is put on participative and collaborative knowledge sharing over the traditional one-way sharing model. Tweetups are meetups of local twitter users, who come together to network with each other and discuss the world around them. The event schedule is as follows: …

OSScamp returns to Chandigarh within 6 months for a splendid show on April 10th, 2010, at Chitkara Educational Trust, Chandigarh. Organized by the will and initiative of two 14 year old school kids, OSScamp Chandigarh has also received a good response from the tech community in Chandigarh and promises to be a grand FOSS event in the city. OSScamps are India's premier FOSS Unconference - an informal/casual event where the emphasis is put on participative and collaborative knowledge sharing over the traditional one-way sharing model. Tweetups are meetups of local twitter users, who come together to network with each other and discuss the world around them. The event schedule is as follows: …

Unnoticed by many, DRBD ports have been spreading for some time on non-Linux platforms. AVS for (Open-)Solaris has been around for a while, and HAST for FreeBSD joined the club last autumn.

And now, Windows. We have received a generous grant (from a source not wishing to have their identity disclosed in public) to fund a port to the Windows Server platform. Development work on this port has commenced back in mid-January.

It’s pretty exciting technology. Rather than tying in with the standard Windows block layer infrastructure, DRBD-W (that’s just a working title, we’ll eventually come up with a spiffier marketing name) is at the core of a brand new storage architecture. Termed Hyper-S, said architecture is actually a highly scalable, extremely light weight, distributed storage …

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.

Beta2 status

ttx reminded everyone that Beta2 Freeze was around the corner.

There are a few beta2-targeted bugs:

• Bug 292971 (mathiaz). It will probably require a BetaFreezeException.

• Bug 493593 (zul)

• Bug 408402 (zul)

• Bug 532733 (kirkland)

Most of the Work Items targeted for beta2 are not …

Well, now I have to wade into the NoSQL discussions that have been going on recently, because we’ve been getting some questions on the differences between InfiniDB and the various NoSQL offerings. I’ve posted a FAQ addition to our site that you can read to get a handle on the distinctions between InfiniDB and NoSQL products. It’s a quick read, I promise.

One thing to keep in mind is that InfiniDB is architected in a very modular fashion, and we are basically a MapReduRead More...