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 PostgreSQL 8.4: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Not Oracle dept.:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released version 8.4, continuing the rapid development of the world's most advanced open source database. This release contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering, querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project.
The most numerous changes in PostgreSQL 8.4 are new or improved administration and monitoring tools and commands. Each user has their own favorite features which will make day-to-day work with PostgreSQL easier and more productive for them.
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The State of MySQL: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Conditional dept.:
Even if you’ve only been paying marginal attention to the MySQL world in the last few months, you probably know that there’s been a lot going on. But putting the Sun and Oracle headlines aside, there’s even more happening in the MySQL community–both from a technology and organizational point of view.
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Open Database Alliance Announced - MySQL Resource: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Whew! dept.:
Monty Program Ab, a MySQL database engineering company, and Percona, a MySQL services and support firm, today announced the "The Open Database Alliance," a vendor-neutral consortium designed to become the industry hub for the MySQL open source database, including MySQL and derivative code, binaries, training, support, and other enhancements for the MySQL community and partner ecosystem. The Open Database Alliance will comprise a collection of companies working together to provide the software, support and services for MariaDB, an enterprise-grade, community-developed branch of MySQL.
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MySQL 5.4 Preview Release: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Progress in the Face of Acquisition dept.:
...Robin Schumacher, director of product management at Sun's MySQL division, explained that the goal of the new push at MySQL is to have a milestone release every three to six months, the first of those is MySQL 5.4. Today's release is considered by MySQL to be a preview, with the full release set for later this year.
Performance is the key improvement in MySQL 5.4, which comes from a number of innovations in the database. At the top of the list are improvements to the MySQL Optimizer which is the tool that dictates the path the database takes to satisfy queries.
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PostgreSQL 8.4 Beta Released: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the The Other White Meat Relational Database dept.:
"The first beta of Version 8.4 of the world's most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL, was just released by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. After fourteen months of development, 8.4 is ready for testing by PostgreSQL users all over the world in order to make it our best release ever."
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Apache CouchDB 0.9.0 Released: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Relax dept.:
This is the first release after graduating from the ASF Incubator.
Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.
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Original Developer of MySQL Resigns: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the A Giant Salute From OSDir dept.:
I have now departed from Sun and joined my own company, Monty Program Ab.
...I had told management that I thus would be submitting my resignation immediately as I strongly believed that the 5.1 release was not ready and that those problems needed to be fixed before it went GA. This action, together with other peoples´ efforts, did have the wanted effect and I made an agreement with Sun´s upper management to not initiate my resignation but instead stay around for three more months to help Sun work out things in MySQL Development and also give Sun a chance to create an optimal role for me within Sun.
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MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Not Reassuring dept.:
"It's no secret that MySQL 5.1 has been a long time in the making, with the first beta release being in Nov 2005, but MySQL 5.1.30 has finally been released as GA. MySQL users can expect new features such as table/index partitioning, row based replication, a new plugin architecture, an event scheduler and a host of performance improvements from 5.1."
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New MySQL Distribution: ExtSQL: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the bean counting dept.:
Many MySQL DBAs are frustrated by their inability to account for high server usage. The engineers at Software Workshop had similar feelings when trying to find 'usage hogs' among web hosting clients. Current tools provide good reports on overall activity -- but none report usage by individual users, a specific database, or connecting client.
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Drizzle: A Focused on the Web MySQL: Databases Posted by: comforteagle
From the Jenny Craig dept.:
Brian Aker, MySQL's director of architecture, has unveiled Drizzle, a database project aimed at powering websites with massive concurrency as well as trimming superfluous functionality from MySQL.
Drizzle will have a micro-kernel architecture with code being removed from the Drizzle core and moved through interfaces into modules. Akers has already selected particular functionality for removal: modes, views, triggers, prepared statements, stored procedures, query cache, data conversion inserts, access control lists and some data types.
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