See the OurDelta blog for details of this release. RHEL/CentOS packages also coming.

You can now apt-get your way to MariaDB 5.1, courtesy of OurDelta and in close cooperation with Monty Program Ab. To get started, simple follow the info on the Debian and Ubuntu pages.

Quick overview

• For MariaDB we use different repository directories to ensure that you can’t accidentally upgrade or revert major versions without you explicitly choosing to do so.
• At this point we have Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty and Karmic for you, as well as Debian 4 (Lenny). Etch (Debian 4) is waiting on a small fix (thanks to Antony Curtis for helping with that).
• The package names start with mariadb*, except …

So we have gone through over 200 revisions for Kontrollbase version 2.0.1 and the team is internally discussing which new features and current open tickets should be added and/or addressed for the 2.0.2 milestone release. Here is your chance to push your ideas and wants into the next major release. So, before shooting off [...]

Over and over I see customers that don't understand what int(11) really means. Their confusion is understandable. Many know what defining a char(10) means (a fixed-sized character string that allows up to 10 characters). However, ints are different.

First of all, there are 5 types of integer. They are all fixed size.

As you can see from the chart, an int is always 4 bytes. That can store signed numbers …

Tokutek is pleased to announce the general availability of TokuDB for MySQL, version 2.2.0. This version offers several improvements:

• Better multi-core load balancing for concurrent workloads.
• Faster bulk loading performance.
• Enhanced diagnostics for easier tuning and troubleshooting.
• Fixed all known bugs.

About TokuDB

TokuDB for MySQL is a storage engine built with Tokutek’s Fractal Tree technology. TokuDB provides near seamless compatibility for MySQL applications. Tables can be individually defined to use TokuDB, MyISAM, InnoDB or other MySQL-compliant storage engines. Data is loaded, inserted, and queried using standard MySQL commands, with no restrictions or special requirements. Our Fractal Tree technology indexes up to 50 times faster than traditional database technologies, enabling near …

Tokutek is pleased to announce the general availability of TokuDB for MySQL, version 2.2.0.  This version offers several improvements:

• 
  
• Better multi-core load balancing for concurrent workloads.
  
• Faster bulk loading performance.
  
• Enhanced diagnostics for easier tuning and troubleshooting.
  
• Fixed all known bugs.

About TokuDB

TokuDB for MySQL is a storage engine built with Tokutek’s Fractal Tree technology. TokuDB provides near seamless compatibility for MySQL applications. Tables can be individually defined to use TokuDB, MyISAM, InnoDB or other MySQL-compliant storage engines. Data is loaded, inserted, and queried using standard MySQL commands, with no restrictions or special requirements. Our Fractal Tree technology indexes up to 50 times faster than …

End of the week notice to let everyone know that Kontrollbase 2.0.1 revision 206 is now available for download. Effectively the same issues have been addressed as in the previous post about rev-205 but now you don’t have to use subversion as the tar.gz file is available. As usual you can find the download here: [...]

Topics for this podcast:

*-DoD memo and official use and consideration of open source
*EnterpriseDB updates its Postgres Plus Server, gets Red Hat investment
*Latest in Linux from Canonical’s Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Deltacloud
*Roundup of Oracle-Sun-MySQL developments and perspectives

iTunes or direct download (25:30, 5.8 MB)

For those of you running the SVN version of Kontrollbase (vs the .tar.gz version) you can download the super awesome new revision 205. This version brings the following changes from the last binary release (194). Keep in mind it also changed the alerts_def table on one of the alert entries. Please apply the sql alter [...]

Well, what a soft launch it has been.
Some people have asked:

When are you going to get a website? Errr…. Soon! We soft launched a bit early, due to some “leaking information” but figured heck, it’s open source let’s let it all out. Soon enough, I swear!

Where can I download DynamoDB? Errr… you can’t yet cause we haven’t finished our build/QA/certification process.

However, since DynamoDB is the alter ego business suit wearing brother of LucidDB, just download the 0.9.2 release if you want to get a sense of what DynamoDB is.

There are 3 built binaries (Linux 32, Linux 64, and Windows 32): http://sourceforge.net/projects/luciddb/files/luciddb/luciddb-0.9.2/ and you can find installation instructions …