MySQL Server Staying Open Source, even Backup extensions: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Reversing a Dumb Idea dept.: As reported yesterday from CommunityOne: * MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source, * so will the MySQL Connectors, and * so will the main storage engines we ship. In addition: * MySQL 6.0’s pending backup functionality will be open source, * the MyISAM driver for MySQL Backup will be open source, and * the encryption and compression backup features will be open source, where the last item is a change of direction from what we were considering before. Published May 07, 2008 - 09:32 AM Read more... Comment

Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the s/may/will dept.: Less than two months into Sun Microsystems' MySQL acquisition, Sun has succeeded in upsetting the grassroots types with plans to close off features to the community. It's emerged Sun may release extra data back-up features in the Enterprise Edition of the next version of MySQL, due in Q4, to paying enterprise subscribers only. Published Apr 18, 2008 - 09:07 AM Read more... Comment

MYSQL 5.1 Major Update Next Week: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Near Future dept.: "5.1, though it sounds like an incremental release, has got some pretty major features," said Zack Urlocker, vice president for MySQL products at Sun, in a video postedto InfoWorld's Web site this week. "Probably, we should have called it 6.0, because there's so much stuff in there and we've been working on it for a couple of years." Among the advances in 5.1 are partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering. They are fairly standard features already offered by rivals IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, but they should help MySQL compete in environments where performance and the ability to scale are critical. Published Apr 12, 2008 - 01:41 PM Read more... Comment

Ubuntu knocking on Oracle's door: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the See the Oracle dept.: Canonical has stated that its Ubuntu Server needs increased support from independent software vendors and system builders. "The acid test for Ubuntu Server is Oracle," Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth told vnunet.com in an interview at the VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco. Published Sep 17, 2007 - 06:19 PM Read more... Comment

Falcon to be the major piece of MySQL 6.0: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Caaaawwww! Caaaawww! dept.: The most significant development in the next major release of MySQL AB's open-source database, MySQL 6.0, will be the inclusion of the vendor's homegrown Falcon storage engine, according to company CEO Marten Mickos. Published May 01, 2007 - 02:17 PM Read more... Comment

MySQL hits $50 million revenue, plans IPO: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Smackers dept.: MySQL, purveyor of the open-source database of the same name, is on the road to becoming a publicly traded company, bolstered by $50 million in revenue in 2006. "It's still in the pipeline," Chief Executive Marten Mickos said of the plan to hold an initial public offering of his company's stock. He declined to discuss when the company planned to go public, but said, "We're making good progress, doing all the things we need to get done." Published Apr 26, 2007 - 04:15 PM Read more... Comment

Google Submits MySQL Code: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the GDatabase dept.: ...The new features include support for "for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during crash recovery." There are also new manageability features such as "new SQL statements for monitoring resource usage by table and account." Published Apr 25, 2007 - 07:37 PM Read more... Comment

Breakthrough in MySQL Performance on FreeBSD: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Faster! dept.: FreeBSD has a reputation of being slow in combination with MySQL, especially when compared to Linux. However, some recent improvements in the scheduler shows that FreeBSD now is pretty much on par with Linux. It also shows that Linux scales very badly after a certain amount of threads per CPU. Published Feb 23, 2007 - 12:52 PM Read more... Comment

MySQL prepares for IPO and reveals Oracle endorsement: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Public Databases dept.: Open source database vendor MySQL AB is preparing itself for an initial public offering, and could even be ready to go public before the end of the year, according to its CEO Marten Mickos. Published Jan 31, 2007 - 01:54 PM Read more... Comment

MySQL Changes License To Avoid GPLv3!: Databases Posted by: comforteagle From the Big Move dept.: MySQL has today refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3. Published Jan 04, 2007 - 05:00 PM Read more... Comment