Ideas, releases, practical guides, and perspectives from the people building with MySQL.
A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2011-08-31 through 2011-09-21:
Red Hat revenue up 28% in Q2. Funding for NoSQL vendors. And more.
# Red Hat reported net income of $40m in the second quarter on revenue up 28% to $281.3m.
# 10gen raised $20m in funding, while DataStax closed an $11m series B round, while also releasing its DataStax Enterprise and Community products. Additionally Neo Technology …
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As Giuseppe Maxia recently posted we released Tungsten Replicator 2.0.4 this week. It
has a raft of bug fixes and new features of which one-line
installations are the single biggest improvement. I set up
replicators dozens of times a day and having a single command for
standard cluster topologies is a huge step forward. Kudos
to Jeff Mace for getting this nailed down.
So what's next? You can get see what we are up to in
general by looking at our issues list. We cannot do everything at
once, but here are the current priorities for Tungsten Replicator
2.0.5.
Engine Yard acquires Orchestra. Red Hat considers NoSQL move. And more.
# Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard platform.
# Red Hat’s CEO indicated the company is interested in a NoSQL or Hadoop acquisition.
# Gluster announced Apache Hadoop compatibility in the next GlusterFS release.
# Microsoft signed an agreement with China Standard Software Co (CS2C) to …
[Read more]InternetNews.com yesterday published an article based on an interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asking the question “Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?”
In truth there was no real need to ask the question, as Whitehurst’s comments made it pretty clear that Red Hat is interested in the database market, and specifically the NoSQL database market.
“When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” Whitehurst said.
In case the implications of that statement were not entirely clear, he later added:
“But we would be very interested in a NoSQL type database or Hadoop type thing,” Whitehurst said. “Those are interesting as they represent net new.”
The article adds that Whitehurst would not …
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Backing up databases has never been fun, not as fun as having a
cool English Ale on the balcony on a hot summar day anyway, but
MongoDB takes this one step further when it comes to
annoyances.
In general, I often feel that many Open Source projects start
with good intentions for what the project should do and how, but
then more stuff is added as you require it, and suddenly what
started out as a simple and fast application for a narrow
usecase, suddenly turns into a bit of a mess. And the issue might
well be that building fast, compact software for a specialized
usecase, as they start out, is not the same as writing generic
software, with a wide range of use cases, code that can easily be
maintained and enhanced as we go along. And why should it not be
like that? In many cases, this is just fine and the limited
usecase is just what the project sets out to do, and it does it
well. But sometimes this turns into something really …
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess I’ll go in order.
In fact, I would argue that starting with NoSQL because you think you might someday have enough traffic and scale to warrant it is a premature optimization, and as such, should be avoided by smaller and even medium sized organizations. You will have plenty of time to switch to NoSQL as and if it becomes helpful. Until that time, NoSQL is an expensive distraction you don’t need.
Uhm… WHAT?!
I’ve spent more than a few years using MySQL and have been using some NoSQL systems for the last year or so in a fairly busy environment. And scaling is only one of the considerations that factor into …
[Read more]“Our experience from PNUTS also tells that these systems are hard to build: performance, but also scaleout, elasticity, failure handling, replication. You can’t afford to take any of these for granted when choosing a system. We wanted to find a way to call these out.” – Adam Silberstein and Raghu Ramakrishnan, Yahoo! Research. ___________________________________ A [...]
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My Colleague Linas Virbalas has just crossed the boundary
between real and virtual and has started a blog, titled
Flying Clusters. Linas is a gifted developer who is taking care of the special projects. One of such projects is replication between MySQL and PostgreSQL, which works quite well. |
Another project, which has just started, is about providing PostgreSQL with Advanced Logical Replication using Tungsten replicator. As you probably know, recent versions of PostgreSQL can do physical replication, which has …
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The Open
Database Camp 2011 is near. In 9 days, the welcome
party starts, and then the conference itself gets
going. If you are coming earlier than Friday, May 6th, you can either use public transportation or book a private seat with a volunteer in the car pooling page. Please help the organizers: post your arrival and departure dates and times, so we may be able to help you even outside the official conference days. About the conference itself, as everyone should know, it's a … |