Last week I announced internally that after my paternity leave ends next year, I will not be returning to Monty Program.

When I joined the company over a year ago I was immediately involved in drafting a project plan for the Open Database Alliance and its relation to MariaDB. We wanted to imitate the model of the Linux Foundation and Linux project, where the MariaDB project would be hosted by a non-profit organization where multiple vendors would collaborate and contribute. We wanted MariaDB to be a true community project, like most successful open source projects are - such as all other parts of the LAMP stack.

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Starting with the great work of Yoshinori-san Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server and Golan Zakai who posted Installing Dena’s HandlerSocket NoSQL plugin for MySQL on Centos I configured and tested HandlerSocket under Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.

NOTE: This machine already compiles MySQL and Drizzle. You should refer to appropriate source compile instructions for necessary dependencies.

# Get Software
cd /some/path
export DIR=`pwd`
wget http://download.github.com/ahiguti-HandlerSocket-Plugin-for-MySQL-1.0.6-10-gd032ec0.tar.gz
wget http://mysql.mirror.iweb.ca/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.52.tar.gz
wget …

Links for today:

Community Rights and Community Wrongs
The Launch of the Document Foundation and the Oxymoron of Corporate Controlled "Community" Projects

Andy Updegrove makes observations of the trend in hosting Open Source projects in non-profit foundations rather than one company, much boosted by Oracle's acquisition and abandonment of Sun's software assets.

Knowing that an organization is “safe” to join, and will be managed for the benefit of the many and not of the privileged few, is one of the key attributes and assurances of “openness.”

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You have about 14 more hours to submit session proposals to the O’Reilly MySQL conference, which is soliciting sessions about all open-source databases: PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Riak, Hadoop, Firebird, you name it. The last-minute proposals are coming fast and furious, as usual, and we have a great selection to choose from, but we need more!

Related posts:

1. Postgres folks, consider the 2011 MySQL conference
2. Submit your proposals for MySQL conference 2010
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Setting up of a good backup and recovery strategy is crucial for any serious MySQL implementation. This strategy can vary from site to site based on various factors including size of the database, rate of change, security needs, retention and other compliance policy etc. In general, it is also required from MySQL DBAs to have least possible impact on usability and performance of the database at the time of backup - i.e MySQL and its dependent applications should remain hot during backup.

Join MySQL backup experts from Zmanda for two webinars dedicated to hot backup of MySQL:

MySQL Backup Essentials: In this webinar, we will go over best practices for backing up live MySQL databases. We will also cover Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL product in detail, including a walk through the configuration and management processes. …

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Zimbra Desktop 2.0!  This is a major milestone for the Zimbra team and includes significant feature and performance upgrades.  The difference between Desktop 1.0 and 2.0 is enormous thanks to the millions of downloads, thousands of forum posts, and hundreds of bugs posted by Zimbra customers and community members.

As most readers of this blog know, Zimbra Desktop is a completely unique client.  It’s the only free, cross-platform tool allowing you to meld your worlds on or offline – storing and syncing your email, …

Sonali Minocha, our world-renowned MySQL expert, lead a session on MySQL Performance Tuning: top 10 Tips on the third day of the conference.

Sonali, who is also famous for her MySQL performance tuning skills in the international community, bombarded the audience that comprised of DBAs and wannabe DBAs with a series of performance tuning tricks and best …

OSSCube’s internationally renowned team of MySQL Experts - Sonali Minocha and Rakesh Kumar, lead a successful workshop on setting up MySQL High Availability for your MySQL Database servers. Scheduled on the second day of the conference, September 20th, the workshop was jam packed with enthusiastic participants.

Sonali, Asia’s first MySQL certified DBA and an internationally renowned MySQL expert, …

Thank you Chennai, for making OSI Days 2010 one of the most memorable events we have been a part of. The three days were a blend of pure open source awesomeness with loads of fun along with serious discussions focusing on technology and how it can be deployed to solve real business problems.

As the Organizing Partner of the conference, we were really concerned about the quality of the sessions at the conference. We had done the first part correct - bring together a stellar team of internationally renowned speakers (something we really had to sweat for!). The other part was to ensure that the participants are able to get the best out of the sessions. We hit some glitches, but all-in-all we did a decent job. Lessons have been learned, next edition will be grander and more accessible than this one.

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