Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases. The presentation begins with a disclaimer:
“There is no way I’m going to tell you exactly where the future of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever even begin a discussion…”
and ends with Aker saying,
“What the hell does that mean?”

View the video online at
http://technocation.org/node/649/play
or download the 42.6 MB Flash video file (.flv) directly at http://technocation.org/node/649/download.

My summary: …

Kudos to Baron Schwartz, who has shown everyone that you can organize a conference from scratch, without the logistics of a company. He has motivated other people in the community and received spontaneous help, which in turn became a web site, sponsor donations, free food for the participants, T-shirt, bags, internet connection, and a glorious feeling of camaraderie throughout the event.
Well done, Baron!

The picture shows a surprised Baron holding a T-shirt covered with "thank you Baron"s, secretly signed by all participants and finally awarded to him in public.

The MySQL 5.1 GA Release will be on or about Dec. 6th, 2008.

How do I know?
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Following up on my previous post Peter asked if he could see a 24 hour run on the Intel drive…  took me a few days because I am doing some testing on a few other things, but I kicked a run off yesterday before leaving the Vegas airport…  Here ya go:

These are roughly 10 minute TPM averages.  As you can see their is a definate decline in performance the longer the drive is active.   Its realtively small% wise, only about 6% off of peak…  but the delcine is easy to spot.

What’s this mean?  It you beat the hell out of the drive over a long contious period things slow down the longer the drive is in continuous use.   Just an FYI, the drive was 78% full during these tests.

The link to Sun's Open Source pages is

http://sun.com/ponytail


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Open SQL Camp, originally uploaded by krow.

Click through to the flicked set. Drizzle, MySQL, Postgres, Infrobright, SQLite, and other database developers were in attendance.

(one note, I have updated a previous blog post by adding the video for the LISA presentation I gave entitled “How to Stop Hating MySQL”)

OpenSQL Camp is in full swing! Baron Schwartz has done an amazing job organizing this free unconference.

We are well into the 2nd session of the day, and the quality of the presentations is excellent (though I expected that!) and it is always great to see people.

Some pictures….
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Is the projector on? Apparently the projector is lying, there are red lights and screams of "cut the blue one". And suddenly there was light.

The keynote is on the "State of Open Source Databases (just where are we?)", Brian Aker is now with Drizzle at Sun/MySQL.

Summarizing as much of Brian as possible (apologies Brian if I missed anything important):

We have achieved ubiquity - Skype, Google... open source databases are entirely ubiquitous. There is no question about when we will "win" -- we have already won. 

As technology has gone for the increase of computing with CPUs following Moore's Law, and as we have more cores now and databases need to scale on more cores and how can databases use all these cores. What about other types of machines, xbox's etc.?

As time moves on, the amount of data expansion is happening very rapidly. Smugmug, LSST and the Large Hadron …

A summary of a week of travels while I wait for the Open SQL Camp to start with Brian Aker's "State of the Union" Keynote.

Monday

Monday started in Columbus, Ohio spending an excellent two days with Jay Pipes and his family while I received "on-the-job" training from Jay. We had discussions of the importance of MySQL ubiquity, "magic" code and a stirring analysis of blob storage in databases compared to stuffing cows in fridges.

Wednesday

From Columbus I headed off to New York to meet Giuseppe "Datacharmer" Maxia during his US North East Tour (in-progress). The hotel room was literally a closet, but it  was right next to Times Square and the Sun offices on Park Avenue (fully stocked with coffee and tea). I discovered Giuseppe outside …

At LISA 2008, I gave a presentation entitled "How to Stop Hating MySQL: Fixing Common Mistakes and Myths".

The presentation slides can be downloaded as a PDF at:

http://technocation.org/files/doc/stophatingmysql.pdf

View the video online at http://technocation.org/node/646/play or download the 202.5 MB Flash video file (.flv) directly at http://technocation.org/node/646/download.

Here are some notes and links I referred to:

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