Here’s a sneak peek at a video matrix — this is all the videos that include Pythian Group employees at the MySQL conference. I hope to have all the rest of the videos processed and uploaded within 24 hours, with a matrix similar to the one below (but of course with many more sessions).
| Title | Presenter | Slides |
Video link (hr:min:sec) |
Details (Conf. site link) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Stage | ||||
| Keynote: Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community | Sheeri K. Cabral (Pythian) | N/A |
18:16 |
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Last week I was surprised to see this paper bubble back up on Planet MySQL. It describes the pros and cons of thread and event based programming for high concurrency applications (like a web server), arguing that thread-based programming is superior if you use an appropriate lightweight threading implementation. I don’t entirely disagree with this, but the problem is such a library does not exist that is standard, portable, and useful for all types of applications. We have POSIX threads in the portable Linux/Unix/BSD world, so we need to work with this. Other experimental libraries based on lightweight threads or “fibers” are really interesting as they can maintain your stack without all the normal overhead, but it is hard to get the scheduling correct for all …
[Read more]There’s a good number of videos appearing online from the MySQL Conference and Expo that was on last week.
Here’s a short list of interesting things to look at if you weren’t able to make the sessions. Obviously, this is from my view as a Drizzle developer. There were other interesting things, but this list is more focused towards where my Drizzle brain is stimulated.
[Read more]This time last year I obtained a domain called raindb.org which I was intending on using for my storage engine project. RainDB was the project name I had in mind for BlitzDB at the time. Since I now have a different project name, I no longer have any use for this domain.
So, rather than letting it go to waste I’d like to contribute this domain for yet another potential open source database project. Your project can be anything – MySQL Storage Engine, Drizzle Storage Engine, Embedded Library, Stand Alone Server, whatever. RainDB would be a good name for a highly concurrent database since the analogy is – “it can be rained on”.
If you’re interested please feel free to email, tweet, or even just leave a comment on this blog entry.
Last Friday we held the Drizzle Developer Day at the Santa Clara convention center, taking advantage of the fact that many developers and interested contributors were already there for the MySQL Conference & Expo. Minus a few small glitches like wifi and pizza consumption location, I would say it was an overall success. There were a lot of new folks interested in learning about Drizzle and getting the server up and running. The day was organized by splitting folks up into small groups with matching interests, and then switching up groups every hour or so. We had groups focused on replication, documentation, writing plugins, the optimizer, Boots (the new client tool), and a “getting started” group.
The first group I participated in was about Boots, the new command line tool …
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I am back home from a good week at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL
Conference & Expo. I had a great time and got to see some old
friends I had not seen in a while.
Oracle gave the opening keynote and it went pretty much like I
thought it would. Oracle said they will keep MySQL alive. They
talked about the new 5.5 release. It was pretty much the same
keynote Sun gave last year. Time will tell what Oracle does with
MySQL.
The expo hall was sparse. Really sparse. There were a fraction of
the booths compared to the past. I don't know why the vendors did
not come. Maybe because they don't want to compete with
Oracle/Sun? In the past you would see HP or Intel have a booth at
the conference. But, with Oracle/Sun owning MySQL, why even try.
Or maybe they are not allowed? I don't know. It was just
sad.
I did stop by the Maatkit booth and was embarrassed to tell …
Oracle outlines MySQL plans. Datameer launches with Series A funding. And more.
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# Oracle confirmed InnoDB as the default MySQL storage engine, Hot Backup to become part of MySQL Enterprise and announced MySQL Cluster 7.1.
# Datameer launched Analytics Solution, which combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, and also closed a $2.5m Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.
# Infobright announced that it grew its customers base from 50 to …
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Upstairs in the Hyatt right near the Speaker room (down the hallway on the left from the main conference registration desk).
See you here!
[Read more]I just announced our continuation of the Embedded InnoDB project under the name of HailDB. Check out the announcement over at http://www.haildb.com/.
HailDB is a relational database that is embeddable within applications. You embed HailDB by linking to a shared library and calling a clean and simple API. HailDB is a continuation of the Embedded InnoDB project. It is not itself a database server, but is a library implementing the storage layer. With the addition of the HailDB plugin to Drizzle you get a full SQL interface.
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