Few days ago I wrote about testing writing to many files and seeing how this affects sequential read performance. I was very interested to see how it shows itself with real tables so I’ve got the script and ran tests for MyISAM and Innodb tables on ext3 filesystem. Here is what I found:
During the recent days we had few announcements of people leaving Sun/MySQL - few days ago I’ve seen announcement by Ronald Bradford and now I see Antony Curtis followed. I know bunch of other guys which are considering to leave or stay.
I do not surprising - how much “better” Sun is compared to Microsoft or Oracle it is still huge corporation and some people just do not like to be small wheels spinning in the huge engine. As for me MySQL became too big couple of years ago so I left MySQL early.
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