We’re pleased to welcome you to InfiniDB and infinidb.org! Today, Calpont is making available the open source version of our analytic database, which we’ve named InfiniDB. InfiniDB is designed to handle analytic applications, data warehouses and marts, read-intensive applications, and read shards of large Web applications. To do that effectively, we’ve tried our best to provide a feature set that’s capable of handling medium to very large data volumes and giving you faRead More...

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First time I heard about Galera on Percona Performance Conference 2009, Seppo Jaakola was presenting "Galera: Multi-Master Synchronous MySQL Replication Clusters". It was impressed as I personally always wanted it for InnoDB, but we had it in plans at the bottom of the list, as this is very hard to implement properly.
The idea by itself is not new, I remember synchronous replication was announced for SolidDB on MySQL UC 2007, but later the product was killed by IBM.

So long time after PPC 2009 there was available version mysql-galera-0.6, which had serious flow, to setup a new node you had to take down whole cluster. And all this time Codership ( company that develops Galera) was working on 0.7 release that introduces node propagation keeping cluster online. You can play with 0.7pre release by yourself …

Hi all. It's been quite some time since my last article on the new replication system in Drizzle. My apologies for the delay in publishing the next article in the replication series.

The delay has been due to a reworking of the replication system to fully support "group commit" behaviour and to support fully transactional replication. The changes allow replicator and applier plugins to understand much more about the actual changes which occurred on the server, and to understand the transactional container properly.

The goals of Drizzle's replication system are as follows:

• Make replication modular and not dependent on one particular implementation
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I got a chance to sit down with Calpont's new VP of Products, Robin Schumacher last week to discuss the announcement of their new open source column-oriented database, InfiniDB. To listen to the interview, click on the embedded link below.



Robin has also posted part one of a two part technical article on InfiniDB in the DevZone. You can check out the article here.

You can also get "up close and personal" with InfiniDB when Robin delivers a free webinar on the advantages of column oriented databases for analytics, high performance query systems and data warehousing next month. Register here.

For more info on what Calpont is up to with InfiniDB, check out their community .org site …

MySQL Engineer Iggy Galarza will be presenting how to build MySQL on Windows today in a free webinar at 10 AM Pacific. To register, sign up here.

He'll be covering environment set up, including required software, like Visual Studio, Bison, CMake, Cywgin, Baazar, etc. and take you from source download to finished product.

If you deploy MySQL on Windows and want to get a jump start on building from source to take advantage of the latest patches or to do your own hacking, this webinar is for you.

MySQL provides statistical data for users to get more knowledge about the tables in databases. The command to get this useful information is \"mysql table status\".

Open source business intelligence and data warehousing are on the rise!

If you kept up with the MySQL Performance Blog, you might have noticed a number of posts comparing the open source analytical databases Infobright, LucidDB, and MonetDB. LucidDB …

MySQL Query browser is a freely available client tool to run queries and commands on MySQL servers. It comes as part of the MySQL GUI tools package, which can be installed on several platforms.

We know all too well that everyone has problems with their databases. We want to hear about your database problems, and if you tell us about them, you could win a RethinkDB sweatshirt. We’re working hard to make RethinkDB as fast, scalable, and flexible as possible. We don’t do this with magic, but by designing RethinkDB for today’s hardware and access patterns. You can help by giving us a clearer picture of what kind of hardware you’re using and what kind of workloads you’re experiencing. You can find the survey at http://www.rethinkdb.com/survey/. The best responses will get an awesome new RethinkDB sweatshirt, so you can be the envy of all your friends! If you’d like us to follow up with you, make sure to check off the last question in the survey. If you’re in the Bay Area, we might even buy you lunch. Scalability demands, rising hardware costs, administration woes, and performance concerns are all fair game. We’re here for you, so …