The Open Source thinker and BSD advocate Gianugo Rabellino just made me aware of a year-old blog entry by Susan Wu in Planet Apache on “Should OSI redefine the label Open Source?”. As I read the entry, it proposes a term “Open Development” and lists these “first stab” requirements:

1. an Open Source license, of course;
2. a non-discriminatory access to the developer?s community;
3. a well-defined and stated process for people to get involved;
4. a neutral and self-elected governing body;
5. (more difficult, could mean having a preferential lane) a neutral party such as a foundation owning the code.

I think Gianugo and Susan are …

As Kaj Arnö already mentioned in his blog, we have a vision for MySQL and it is called a scalable BLOB streaming infrastructure. Our plan is to build this into and around the MySQL architecture with the help of MySQL and the community.

It is a "big picture" idea and in this way a response to Robin Schumacher's question: The MySQL Vision - What do you see?. But at the same time it is very relevant and practical in the context of the Web 2.0 world.

The design of the system includes a client-side library which extends the existing MySQL client API, a stream based communications protocol and a scalable back-end which is (at least partially) linked into the MySQL server. In short, we want to make it possible to put BLOBs of any size in the database.

The …

Hello,

For those of you interested in learning about how to design high availability architectures using MySQL, DRBD and Linux Heartbeat, please check out next Wednesday's (3/28) webinar.

Info and registration:

http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/mysql-drbd.php

See you there,

Jimmy

One of our product managers sent around a link to the site www.crankypm.com which describes the fictional life of a product manager at a mythical software company.  Having read a few of the essays on "A Day in the Life" and "All the Responsibility and No Authority" I think it's a pretty accurate description of life in the trenches in product management. 

Product Management is not an easy job, but its an …

MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.6 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.
This is a bug fix release for the current production branch of Connector/Net.

 
Version 5.0.6 is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-5.2 Falcon "Preview".
It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

 
This release comes shortly after 5.0.5 due to an incompatibility with Tools for Visual Studio.  With 5.0.5, we changed how the connector respects binary data …

New research data shows increased MySQL usage by developers…GoDaddy donates cash to two open source projects…open source mobile company Funambol releases survey data on mobile email…and more…

MySQL Gains 25% Market Share of Database Usage, Latest Evans Data Survey Shows, Evans Data (Press Release)

Funambol Study Reveals Millions of Consumers to Start Using Mobile Email Shortly, Funambol (Press Release)

World’s Domain Name & Hosting Leader Backs Open Source Community - GoDaddy.com Donates $10K to Both Joomla & Simple Machines, GoDaddy.com (Press Release)

CollabNet partners with …

<p>Recently the question came up if it is faster to restore a MySQL cluster when all nodes are up or only ONE node from each node group during restore.</p> <p>The answer from our gurus was: All nodes up during restore! I wanted to find out why. So I set up the following cluster and started to measure:</p>

Recently the question came up if it is faster to restore a MySQL cluster when all nodes are up or only ONE node from each node group during restore.

The answer from our gurus was: All nodes up during restore! I wanted to find out why. So I set up the following cluster and started to measure:

MySQL Cluster set up

MySQL Cluster backup

The backup is not that interesting. But I made the drawing for possible future use :-) :

MySQL Cluster restore

For the restore there are 4 different ways thinkable:

• Restore with all nodes up and all 4 backup pieces are restored in sequence. (1a)
• Restore with all nodes up and all 4 backup pieces are restored in parallel. (1b)
• Restore with 1 node of each node group down and all 4 backup pieces are restored in sequence. (2a)
• Restore with 1 node of each node group down and all 4 backup pieces are restored in …

Solid has released 5.0.27-0064. This release has a number of bug fixes and enhancements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.

Some highlights include:

• Obtain version number. You can now see which version of solidDB for MySQL you are running with the “show status” command. In order to not break existing applications which rely on it, the version number of MySQL server on which solidDB for MySQL is built upon can still be determined by using the “select version()” function.

mysql> show status like 'solidDB_version';
+-----------------+---------------------+
| Variable_name   | Value …