As you might have noticed, I'm getting further away from MySQL here. This is just how things are I guess, I just do much less work with MySQL these days. The first migration was from MySQL to MongoDB, which was some time back. This was pretty successful, but note that we still have some data in MySQL, but the bulk of the data is in MongoDB right now.

Running any database on Amazon (and we run all databases on Amazon or on Amazon RDS service) may be costly, depending on how you utilize your resources. The recently announced Amazon DynamoDB is Amazons NoSQL service offering, but it is not like MongoDB with a twist, far from it. If you have read what I have written about MongoDB, I have now and then complained about the lack of functionality, but to be honest, I have learnt to live with MongoDB and it's shortcomings, and have started to like many of the JavaScript features of it (one thing I hate about it, and about JavaScript in general …

Read the original article at A handy guide for PHP and MongoDB Web Development

What makes a beginner’s guide handy is when it speaks to your intuition. It anticipates the burning questions that follow from a newbie trying to grasp new concepts and it quickly answers them. PHP and MongoDB Web Development – Beginner’s Guide is one such guide.

I hadn’t heard of Packt Publishing or Rubayeet Islam before picking up this title and I must say I’m impressed. Based in Birmingham, with offices in Mumbai, part of Packt’s business model is to give part of the royalties earned from its books to the open …

It is my pleasure to announce that I will be presenting on Tungsten Replicator next Wednesday, January 11th at the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup. The presentation title is Fast, Flexible, and Fun--The Tungsten Replicator Magical Mystery Tour. This talk is going to be fun for two reasons.

First, it's a great opportunity to meet people in the LA MySQL community and talk about my favorite replication software. Tungsten is like a Swiss Army Knife for data replication.  It solves a wide range of problems involving HA, scaling, and data movement.   The presentation gives a quick intro to the replicator, then surveys how to use the most interesting features, including parallel slave apply, multi-master replication, …

First of all, I wish you a happy new year.
Many things happened last year, it was really exciting to be involved in the MySQL ecosystem.
I hope this enthusiasm will be increased this year, up to you !

To start the year, I propose the MySQL[plus] Awards 2011
It will only take 5 minutes to fill out these polls.
Answer with your heart first and then with your experience with some of these tools or services.

Polls will be closed January 31, so, vote now !
For “other” answers, please,  let me a comment with details.

Don’t hesitate to submit proposal for tools or services in the comments.
And, please, share these polls !

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, …

Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a prior post.  These have been optimized for use as black & white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images.  If you haven't done so already, you can install a Kindle screensaver hack with a couple of downloads. 

Update: I've embedded a slideshow from PicasaWeb, but it requires Flash.  If you don't see it you can click on the links below to go directly to PicasaWeb.

• Kindle hacks:  …

Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.

# Jive Software started IPO at $12 a share, closing the day up nearly 30%.

# HP announced that it plans to release webOS under an open source license. Details are thin on the ground, although Fedora is reportedly an inspiration. Joel West’s post pretty much summed up my thoughts.

# Tier 3 …

Funding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more.

# BlazeMeter announced $1.2m in Series A funding and launched the a cloud service for load and performance testing.

# Digital Reasoning announced a second round of funding to help develop its Hadoop-based analytics offering.

# Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, based on its recent acquisition of Gluster.

# Red Hat also …

Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.

# Rapid7 secured $50m in series C funding.

# Microsoft confirmed that it is ditching its Dryad project in favour of Apache Hadoop.

# Arun Murthy provided more details of Apache Hadop 0.23.

# The Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT Designer projects are now fully open source.

# openSUSE released version 12.1.

451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but non-clients can find a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding, over at our Too Much Information blog.

We have seen the "warning" against using MongoDB a few times now, and I have to say that this reminds me of other such warnings:

• 640 K is enough
  
• Relational databases are too slow (John Cullinane) (see for example: http://www.cbronline.com/news/ellison_makes_pre_emptive_strike_to_save_oracle_from_fate_of_cullinet)
• Linux is for nerds only.
• Virtual computing is waaay too slow.
• There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken Olsen, DEC)
• Who the h*ll wants to hear actors talk?. Warner

In a sense, most of them were right. If you had, in the 1920's, asked the movie going public if they wanted "talkies", chances are most of them would have said no. If you had told my mom and dad in the late 1970's …