Last week at the Drizzle developer day a few people were surprised at the number of plugin interfaces we’ve created already. I created this image to give a sampling of interfaces and plugins:

As you can see, things are quite different from MySQL.

Having read a weeks worth of reactions to MySQL ending up at Oracle, I just want to say that by far the aptest1 commentary goes to Chris Powers from the Falcon team. A picture indeed says more than 1k words:

Now I know it is not the apocalypse and we probably won't be crucified either. But I do sympathise with the Falcon team, their reason of existence certainly is put more into question than us in general.

The prize to the most astonishing prediction goes to John …

Following on from the announcement  at the User Conference last week that MySQL Cluster 7.0 is now generally available, Mat Keep and I will present the first public webcast this Thursday. If you’d like to attend but the time isn’t convenient then you can either watch/listen to the recording after the event or wait for the next one to be announced (will be aimed at different time-zones).

Details…..

What’s New in the Next Generation of MySQL Cluster?
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Whether you’re racing to introduce a new service, or trying to manage an avalanche of data in real time, your database has to be scalable, fast and highly available to meet ever-changing market conditions and stringent SLAs.

By attending this webinar, you will learn more about MySQL Cluster 7, and how it enables you to deliver 99.999% database availability, with real time performance and linear scalability, while slashing …

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009 I will be presenting two presentations at the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference in Orlando FL, the week of May 3rd 2009. Here is one I have been asked to present. This presentation is a very detailed technical presentation designed for experienced Oracle professionals to get an understanding of the MySQL database server under the hood.

George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009 I will be presenting two presentations at the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference in Orlando FL, the week of May 3rd 2009. Here is one I have been asked to present. This presentation is a non-technical presentation talking about MySQL positioning, strengths and strategic directions.What every Oracle Professional needs to know about

Thanks to everyone who came out for the Gearman and libdrizzle talks at the MySQL Confrence & Expo and the Percona Performance Conference! Links to the slides are provided below:

• The Return of Gearman (Percona)
• libdrizzle: A New Client Library for Drizzle and MySQL (MySQL)
• Map/Reduce and Queues for MySQL Using Gearman (MySQL)

If you want to learn more about Gearman, be sure to check out gearman.org or the upcoming 3-hour tutorial or …

OK, so those who know me well can attest to the fact that I can sometimes be a little quick to speak my mind. Sometimes I say snarky things without thinking much. Last week, I blogged a short, snide blog post that Drizzle was not the MySQL Drizzle project and that it was not "shepparded by MySQL" (and, yes, I spelled shepherded incorrectly. Thanks, PeterG).

The blog post referred to Karen Padir's keynote on Tuesday morning, but I misquoted her. Karen said "shepherded by Sun Microsystems", not "shepherded by MySQL". I was actually quoting a blog post from the same day which had misquoted Karen as saying "shepherded by Sun/MySQL".

Karen, I'm sorry I misquoted you. I let my emotions dictate my words, and I should have …

As promised, here are more results running memcached on Sun's X2270 (Nehalem-based server). In my previous post, I mentioned that we got 350K ops/sec running a single instance of memcached at which point the throughput was hampered by the scalability issues of memcached. So we ran two instances of memcached on the same server, each using 15GB of memory and tested both 1.2.5 and 1.3.2 versions. Here are the results :

The maximum throughput was 470K ops/sec using 4 threads in memcached 1.3.2. Performance of 1.2.5 was just very slightly lower. At this throughput, the network capacity of the single 10gbe card was reached as the benchmark does a lot of small packet transfers. See my earlier post for a description of the server configuration and the benchmark. At the maximum …

CFO research published a white paper last month about the high cost of ERP, and the results were pretty astounding: ERP software is even more expensive than most people thought!  In their survey, over 80% of the companies had customized their ERP systems, and the annual cost of making those customizations can be nearly twice the amount of annual maintenance and support fees.  This is because most commercial ERP systems are very difficult to change.  Even minor modifications took on average 7 person-days to make.
As a result of this high cost of customizing ERP software, many CFO's are giving up completely on customizations and instead, as one finance director said, "... will modify the business process if necessary or create an offline procedure" instead of making customizations.  In other words, either they will run their …

After a turbulent week, where a few of our team were presenting workbench at this years MySQL Users Conference, we have finally uploaded the next beta packages for you to try. We’ve further improved the handling of the application. The problem with the missing table editor in the mac package is fixed in this release as well.

Please grab the package of your choice at our download page and give it a try.