Open source databases still have a very long way to catch up to
Oracle. I was at Oracle Open World touring the exhibits on Tuesday.
Just for fun I asked everyone I met whether they used open source
databases or saw demand for them in their businesses. The answer
almost universally went like this: "No."
One simple reason explains much of the Oracle dominance as well
as the inertia of many companies in switching to something else.
A huge number of enterprise applications like Siebel or SAP run on Oracle. MySQL and PostgreSQL
applications on the other hand are either custom code or belong
to an area where open source is truly dominant, such as web site
content management. Even when more applications run on open
source, most …
Welcome to the 115th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
I must thank Paul for taking over at last minute for LB#114 last week, when, as he put it, “ . . . a killer combo of painkillers and the pain that the painkillers can’t kill . . . ” reduced to me a less-than Log-Buffer-capable state. Or to be more precise, to a writhing, benighted gargoyle of misery. (Too colorful?)
Anyway, the good news is that I’m better. Not all better, mind you. Between the tooth thing and my spending all my working time on a special project, there was nothing left for poor old Log Buffer. So, I face the choice: throw it open to you, LB’s loyal …
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Replication is one of the most useful but also also one of the
most arcane database technologies. Every real database has it in
some form. Despite ubiquity, replication is complex to use and in
the case of commercial databases quite expensive to boot.
We aim to
change that. On Tuesday we will be announcing replication support
for Oracle.
Oracle replication will be based on our open source Tungsten Replicator, which is currently
available in an alpha version for MySQL. Our goal is to provide replication that
is accessible and usable by a wide range of users, especially
those running lower-cost Oracle editions.
It's not a coincidence that we chose to implement MySQL and
Oracle …
Description:
The drupal_lookup_path function unnecessarily counts all rows of
the url_alias table to determine if any aliases are defined. This
can be expensive on a transactional database such as MySQL with
the InnoDB Storage Engine or PostgreSQL when a website has a lot
of aliases. This patch modifies the query to always only return
one row, possible because any existing pid will be greater than
0. If no aliases are defined, it will return 0.
Status:
This patch has not been merged into any release of Drupal.
Patch
This is the 114th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.
I am sorry to say that this log buffer was supposed to be edited by Dave Edwards, but he’s suffering from severe and long-lasting tooth pain and until his root canal is done he’s KO’d by a killer combo of painkillers and the pain that the painkillers can’t kill. I’ve been there myself, twice, and here’s a tip Dave. It hurts until the dentist takes out the needle. Then the pain goes away while he digs. The pain comes back that night. The next morning it’s worse than ever, unbelievably, writhingly bad. But later that afternoon, blisssssssssssss. :-) Good luck man.
This Log Buffer has been generated in a completely automated way with the help of the incredibly awesome AideRSS.
To give you an idea …
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Today we announced (German press release, English press release) a partner deal with Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, makers of the Dolphin Express highspeed interconnect technology. Like DRBD, Dolphin Express and Dolphin SuperSockets are well established within the MySQL customer base — the latter as a low-latency interconnect for MySQL Cluster. As part of the deal, …
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All open databases are equal in front of the developers community. This is the message launched by Baron Schwartz in his announcement of the first Open SQL Camp. After the last MySQL Users Conference, there were some talks of alternative conferences organized by the users for users. This is the first such event. It will be held in Charlottesville, VA, USA, November 14-16, 2008. |
Users, in the context of databases, especially open ones, means developers. Do you feel like hacking some database project? If your database of choice is open (MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaDB, SQLite, Firebird), you may give the OpenSQLCamp a try!
Kickfire was recently selected by Network World as one of 10 Open Source Companies to Watch. First of all, the disclaimer: we are not an open source company. As any of you reading this blog know, Kickfire is an appliance company. So, why then did we appear on the list? The link of course is MySQL.
The Kickfire appliance was built to run MySQL for high-performance business intelligence and data warehousing workloads. So, while we are not an open source company, we are very much what I would term as an “open source-based business”. Now, for those who track the data warehousing market, it might seem that a lot of vendors could claim that mantle as a large proportion have code that is derived from PostgreSQL. However, that’s not what I mean by an open source-based business. So, how would one …
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Sheeri Cabral gets things going this week with her coverage of this rumour: Monty Widenius Leaves Sun/MySQL. If it turns out to be true, that seems like bad–or at least sad–news for MySQL, but Sheeri’s take is mostly an optimistic one.
MySQL’s Kaj Arno responds to the rumours on Monty resigning: “First, it’s a rumour. . . . Second, Monty’s resignation has been a possible outcome already since years before the Sun …
[Read more]I finally got around to reading this update from Red Hat about Spacewalk, the open source version of Red Hat Network Satellite, launched in June.
Other than the progress in attracting participants and patches, the interesting news is that PostgreSQL support is being added after being demanded by the community. The roadmap confirms that work on support for PostgreSQL is scheduled to begin in mid-October.
The Path to PostgreSQL page, meanwhile, indicates that the idea will enable Red …
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