I've been linked to DZone.com. DZone appears to be like furl and digg, where people submit links and other readers vote them up or down.

Mark has released his S3 engine:
http://fallenpegasus.livejournal.com/579770.html

S3 is the Amazon storage system. Personally I am very interested to see how user's can put this to use. Being able to take data and store it in a remote service has a lot of really interesting possibilities (off lining OLTP, of site backups, simple ability to push objects to S3...)

He is also speaking on it at the MySQL User's Conference:
http://www.mysqlconf.com/cs/mysqluc2007/view/e_sess/10822

He also has a BOF on his SNMP plugin (which I would think would really shake people's worlds):
http://www.mysqlconf.com/cs/mysqluc2007/view/e_sess/14285
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I just got mentioned on the official AWS blog

Independent developer Mark Atwood has been working on a MySQL interface to Amazon S3. Released under the GNU Public License, the code is compatible with version 5.1 of MySQL. Once the interface has been installed and configured with your AWS developer credentials, you can now create tables using the AWSS3 storage engine like this:

CREATE TABLE atst (s3id VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, s3val BLOB)) ENGINE='AWSS3' connection='awss3 bucketname aws_id aws_secret'

This is a bleeding-edge, first-cut release and, as is the case with popular open source projects, will undoubtedly evolve and mature rapidly over the coming weeks and months.

Based on Mark's S3 journal entries, the basic functionality is now in place. Each database table row is stored in an S3 object. The …

While reviewing the material for this session, I remembered a usability report that I wrote when the feature was …

I have just released PrimeBase XT 0.9.86 which will be my last release before the MySQL User Conference this year. The most significant change in this version is the reduction of the number of data logs used per table. This, and a number of other modifications, makes PBXT fit to handle databases with 1000's of tables.

If you would like to learn more about the development and design of PBXT then join me for my session at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara, on Wed, April 25, 10:45am - 11:45am, Ballroom F:

PrimeBase XT: Design and Implementation of a Transactional Storage Engine

Looking ahead, I would also like to invite all who are interested to the "Scalable BLOB Streaming Infrastructure" BoF, which is scheduled for …

LJ ate part of the post, so I am updating it with the original content.

I've not been posting a lot about my studies on bottlenecks in the
server and my work on what I am seeing with different engines, but I
thought I would comment on Peter's benchmarks on PBXT:
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/04/08/pbxt-benchmarks/

This is a bit off what I have found so far:










In all tests but the final, the task …

Today while waiting at the airport, I took a look at the news stand, and right there on the cover of Fast Company were two words Google, and Wikipedia. Given Wikipedia is a poster boy of MySQL it was an immediate purchase just to see what was being said.

So the title of the cover was Google’s worse nightmare - Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales has his sights set on the search business.

Now, often I use Wikipedia to search for things directly rather then using Google. I’ve found it usually to be more accurate, particular on topics I know it will contain. References to search users being disappointed, Google and Yahoo tied with a 2.3 of 5 in user satisfaction hits about home for me as week, and that’s exactly the ideas …

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News:
MySQL signs a 1 million Euro deal with an unnamed European Telco.
http://www.pythian.com/blogs/408/mysql-inks-1m-deal-anyone-know-more-details

MySQL 5.0.37 is out ? it’s an odd release, so it’s a community release, and it’s a full release with binaries and source. This release isa big milestone, as it includes the first patches submitted by the MySQL Community.
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Today I was doing some pre-release testing of our software and to test it I was needed three separate servers running MySQL. After some thinking I decided to use my “old” workstation (actually it is pretty powerful Sempron with 2Gb of RAM, but now I use my macbook as a primary workstation) and start 3 separate virtual servers there. Of course, as all admins, I’m little bit lazy and installing Debian on all three machines was not appropriate solution ;-). So, I’ve created one machine, installed brand-new Debian Etch there and then begun to look for solution to clone this machine to run it in three copies. After all these operations were done, I’ve decided to spend time I’ve saved with this simple trick to describe here how to clone VmWare …

I've been preparing for my innotop session at the upcoming MySQL conference, and enlisted Giuseppe Maxia's MySQL Sandbox to help me get a bunch of MySQL servers, from 3.23.58 to 5.2.3, running on one machine. It was super-easy and has helped me find some bugs in innotop. I should have done this a long time ago.