MySQL for Visual Studio is a product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net. The 1.2.0 version is an alpha release of this product that intents to introduce users to the new features in this version.

The MySQL Cluster engineering team recently ran a live webinar, available now on-demand demonstrating the ClusterJ and ClusterJPA NoSQL APIs for MySQL Cluster, and how these can be used in building real-time, high scale Java-based services that require continuous availability.

Attendees asked a number of great questions during the webinar, and I thought it would be useful to share those here, so others are also able to learn more about the Java NoSQL APIs.

First, a little bit about why we developed these APIs and why they are interesting to Java developers.

ClusterJ and Cluster JPA

ClusterJ is a Java interface to MySQL Cluster that provides either a static or dynamic domain object model, similar to the data model used by JDO, …

Today Sun Software and Systems group is announcing the best open Web infrastructure and services for MySQL deployments. Sun is unveiling five new  solutions -- designed for our enterprise customers using MySQL --  that marry the market-leading, easy-to-use, open source MySQL database, with the performance and scalability of Sun servers and open storage. More at http://www.sun.com/systems/solutions/mysql/

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

    * With Sun Systems for MySQL, customers can improve the performance of MySQL in high-volume environments to grow their business with improved Web services.
    * Sun Systems for MySQL help ease MySQL deployments without significant application re-engineering efforts and by avoiding complex trial-and-error deployment testing.
    * Sun Systems for MySQL …