Sitting at the Hilton in San Francisco, listening to the MySQL Connect opening Keynotes, sparks interesting
thoughts. Thoughts about the future of MySQL, the Oracle
stewardship, the MariaDB alternative and the advantage of the
solutions provided by the MySQL Ecosystem.
But there is something missing. I know something is not part of
this picture, but I can't figure out what it is.
At the end of keynotes and pane,l I turn to the exhibitors area,
an approx 800 sq ft., 50% occupied by Oracle. At the bottom left
corner stands my answer.
The small yellow cubic hive of AWS was at the top of the rollup
that reminds of MySQL and RDS, admittedly the most used version
of MySQL in the cloud so far. And here is the missing
part.
New great features in 5.6 Release Candidate and in MySQL Cluster
7.3
The new features packed into …
When SkySQL opened its doors two years ago, we purposely set out with the goal to build trusted and value-for-money services for users of MySQL and MariaDB databases. We focused on offering a quality alternative for those deploying open source systems - and we feel that we have succeeded. Our plan was to build a service business and customer base that will create a strong platform on which to develop our own products in collaboration with key customers. Red Hat is the only other successful start-up that I am aware of having taken a similar approach of first building a successful services business before developing products.
Look! You can see the heart beating!
In case you are wondering, no, nobody in the family is expecting
another baby…
I thought I had to start the post with this picture. Today I feel
a bit like the day I went to the hospital for a pregnancy scan.
As you may expect, seeing the baby moving was incredibly
emotional, and I can feel some similar emotions with this
announcement.
Many of you already know that today SkySQL has announced
and will release the very first version of our very first
product, the SkySQL Cloud Data Suite. Before I enter into more
details about the product, let me add a couple of points.
First of all, this is still a …
On the 8/16 I conducted a webinar titled: "Scale Up vs. Scale
Out" (http://www.slideshare.net/ScaleBase/scalebase-webinar-816-scaleup-vs-scaleout):
ScaleBase Webinar 8.16: ScaleUp vs.
ScaleOut from ScaleBase
The webinar was successful, we had many attendees and
great participation in questions and
answers throughout the session and in the
end. Only after the webinar it only occurred to me
that one specific graphic was missing from the webinar deck. It
was occurred to me after answering
several audience questions about "the difference
between …
MySQL data rules the cloud, but recent experience shows us that there's no substitute for maintaining copies of data, across availability zones, when it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) data resilience.
In this video (recording of our 8/23/12 webcast), we survey technologies for maintaining real-time copies of your data and the pros & cons of each. We conclude with a live demonstration of a
A while ago I had a discussion with someone about the future of server infrastructure. Among other things, we were wondering whether companies will continue to run on dedicated servers or if eventually everyone just ends up in a Cloud environment. During the discussion I raised a point that in principle Cloud is a great idea that will keep attracting more and more people, but it is missing one important piece that stops many from using it – a high performance storage. Apparently, this has just changed.
Yesterday I received an e-mail announcing a new EC2 instance type – hi1.4xlarge. It features 16 logical CPUs (35 ECUs), 60GB of RAM, and… two 1TB SSD-based disk volumes! These are great specs that should work for nearly any database. Even assuming someone has a MySQL database larger than 2TB, not all tables will require fast storage, while more disk space can be easily added by attaching regular EBS volumes.
I decided …
[Read more]Can OLTP database workloads use Amazon S3 as primary storage? Now they can, thanks to the Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE), but the question is: how fast?
- ClouSE on “across the street” vs. “across the continent” cloud storage
- ClouSE vs InnoDB
- ClouSE benefits
To answer the question about performance, we decided to run
db_STRESS benchmark on a MySQL database in Amazon
EC2. We compared 3 configurations:
- “Across the street storage”: ClouSE with data stored in S3 in the same …
ClouSE version 1.0b.1.2 and WordPress on S3 / Yapixx refresh is released
OblakSoft is pleased to announce the release of ClouSE version 1.0b.1.2 and WordPress on S3 / Yapixx refresh.
This release addresses performances and usability issues reported by our early adopters. Thank you all for your feedback.
- Support for MySQL 5.5.25
Now ClouSE supports MySQL thru 5.5.25. To keep the distribution small, we don’t build binaries for MySQL prior to 5.5.14 anymore. If you need one, please contact us.
- Weblob content type improvement
Now the content type for Weblobs is set based on their name. Previously, the content type for all Weblobs was set to application/octet-stream, which could lead to undesirable Web Browser behavior when the …
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In a previous post I wrote ARM based servers. Since then,
and thanks to all the comments and responses I got, I looked more
into this ARM thing and it's absolutely fascinating...
Look at this beauty (taken from the site of Calxeda,
the manufacturer):
What is it? A chip? A server? No, it's a cluster of 4
servers...
And this:
is HP Redstone Server, 288 chips, 1,152 cores (Calxeda
quad-core SoC) in a 4U server “Dramatically reducing the cost and
complexity of cabling and …
At a time when most companies are doing all they can to maintain the status quo, SkySQL is daring to imagine a new “normal”. We’re on a mission to change the way companies interact with and manage their data, both in the enterprise and in the cloud. Along with our strategic partners, in particular MariaDB, we’re working to develop new open source database solutions that challenge proprietary enterprise solutions and business models.
To help us achieve our goal, we’re looking for a few daring open source engineers to join our team and take on the status quo: