May 21, 2013

MySQL Community Needs

Sheeri just posted a great post putting a different view on recent MySQL Community Announcements. This however raises very interesting point what MySQL Community really needs ? I think the problem is there are no single set of needs for Community which can be maintained within single version. I see at least two set of [...]

MySQL – to use or not to use

Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]

MySQL Geek Job Openings

The consulting load keeps increasing so we’re looking for some help. This job would be perfect for someone interested in high performance and scaling with decent knowledge of MySQL and eagerness to learn more. We do encourage people from all countries to apply.

MySQL Storage Engines – PBXT

I promised to write little articles about all storage engines which sessions I attended during MySQL Users Conference but I did not get too far yet, too busy. So today it is time for PBXT. I was very interested about session about PBXT because this is storage engine does not target the same general purpose [...]

Back from RIT2007

So I’m back from RIT2007 which took place April 16,17 in Moscow,Russia. The conference was well organized, while the conference center was a bit small for event – halls were jam packed during the breaks and there was limited sitting available for many sessions. It was great to see attendees from almost all serious Internet [...]

Looking for someone with Chinese knowledge

We’re looking to implement CJK Support in Open Source Full Text search engine Sphinx . Initially we’re thinking to base search ob bi-gram indexing to keep it simple, especially as according to research papers it offers decent quality for most cases. This is not that complex to implement however there is no way we can [...]