I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.13(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
This release is bug fix release.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for more detail.
Thanks to Mitsuhiro for bug report.

Enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.11(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Add table link background monitoring feature.
- Add table parameter "monitoring_bg_interval" and "monitoring_bg_kind".

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.

Enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.10(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Add table parameter "ssl_ca", "ssl_capath", "ssl_cert", "ssl_cipher", "ssl_key", "ssl_verify_server_cert", "default_file" and "default_group".
- Add UDF parameter "ssl_ca", "ssl_capath", "ssl_cert", "ssl_cipher", "ssl_key", "ssl_verify_server_cert", "default_file" and "default_group".
You can use ssl for Spider's communication to remote servers.
Spider can read config file(my.cnf) at connecting to remote servers.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.
Thanks to Shinya for bug report.

Enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.9(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Add UDFs "spider_ping_table".
- Add table parameter "monitoring_kind", "monitoring_limit" and "monitoring_server_id".
- Add server parameter "spider_udf_table_mon_mutex_count".
  Add Spider's link fault monitor at this release.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.
Thanks to shinichiro and merikonjatta for bug report.

Enjoy!

This Thursday (November 26th, 14:00 UTC), Giuseppe Maxia will present the Spider Storage Engine. This session was originally scheduled for October 15th but had to be postponed for technical reasons.

Here's from the abstract: Everybody needs sharding. Which is not easy to maintain. Being tied to the application layer, sharding is hard to export and to interact with. The Spider storage engine, a plugin for MySQL 5.1 and later, solves the problem in a transparent way. It is an extension of partitioning. Using this engine, the user can deal transparently with multiple backends in the server layer. This means that the data is accessible from any application without code changes. This lecture …

This Thursday (November 26th, 14:00 UTC), Giuseppe Maxia will present the Spider Storage Engine. This session was originally scheduled for October 15th but had to be postponed for technical reasons.

Here's from the abstract: Everybody needs sharding. Which is not easy to maintain. Being tied to the application layer, sharding is hard to export and to interact with. The Spider storage engine, a plugin for MySQL 5.1 and later, solves the problem in a transparent way. It is an extension of partitioning. Using this engine, the user can deal transparently with multiple backends in the server layer. This means that the data is accessible from any application without code changes. This lecture …

This Thursday (November 26th, 14:00 UTC), Giuseppe Maxia will present the Spider Storage Engine. This session was originally scheduled for October 15th but had to be postponed for technical reasons.

Here's from the abstract: Everybody needs sharding. Which is not easy to maintain. Being tied to the application layer, sharding is hard to export and to interact with. The Spider storage engine, a plugin for MySQL 5.1 and later, solves the problem in a transparent way. It is an extension of partitioning. Using this engine, the user can deal transparently with multiple backends in the server layer. This means that the data is accessible from any application without code changes. This …

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.8(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Add table parameter "link_status".
  You can change link_status using "alter table" statement.
  Spider's link fault management is table level.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.

Enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.7(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Spider table can load balance using multiple links at searching without locking. Load balance rule is "((server_id + thread_id) % number_of_links)".
  Please write multiple connection informations splitting space characters at "host", "user", "table", "server", "socket", "wrapper", "database" and "password" table parameters.
  Example: "host 'h1 h2 h3'"

I will continue to develop Spider's functions for Active-Active type clustering.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.

Enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.6(beta).
Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- Add server parameter "spider_remote_access_charset", "spider_remote_autocommit", "spider_remote_sql_log_off" and "spider_remote_trx_isolation".
  These parameters are setted by Spider at connecting remote server. But it does not need to be setted if you know it previously and no need to change it. In this case, you can set these parameters for improvement connecting performance.

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.
Thanks to Giuseppe for bug report.

Enjoy!