… note… In the ’60s, IBM had 70% of the computer market; number 2 had no more than 4%. It was _very… where a migration was virtually a rewrite. (Today moving from MySQL to/from Oracle/MSSql/etc is even more painful.) And…
Post: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
May 10, 2013 By 13 Comments
… companies that also use the “Open Source” mark as a marketing tool, too – we often can see this in products based… though it is widely publicized as a “success” by their marketing teams) – it is quite hidden among all buzz, but you… Tokutek). To summarize my thoughts: If you are in the MySQL market and your product is under proprietary license (not an Open…
Post: Percona Live MySQL Conference 2013 wrap-up
April 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… Live MySQL Conference was a gathering place for the entire MySQL community with the industry thought leaders presenting insights on technology, the market, and the community in a cooperative atmosphere. We run Percona Live MySQL conferences to bring together all MySQL users, vendors…
Comment: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
May 10, 2013 By 13 Comments
… between Open Source only and proprietary only software. Remember in MySQL early days before there was single close source extension or….000 paying customers – not bad at all. If the total market for software is 10.000 installations you will unlikely get… to be in business. The competition also matters – for many market areas there are no good open source software so people…
Comment: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)
May 11, 2013 By 13 Comments
… something on your own. You can chose to stay with MySQL with Tokudb as your data gets bigger and when it… give out community cripple-ware versions. Tokudb is taking away market share from those vendors by opening up their software and…
Comment: Testing the Micron P320h
April 16, 2013 By 7 Comments
1) Would you recommend EXT4 over XFS for MySQL on SSD? What about Btrfs or ZFS? Seems like with …/15/virident-tachion-new-player-on-flash-pci-e-cards-market/) and found it to be significantly faster than FusionIO as…
Post: Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?
April 10, 2011 By 64 Comments
… is appealing to improve performance for MySQL Applications ? Make it Lockless Can we re-implement MySQL Query Cache so it is lockless… some sort of garbage collection. Support for Delayed Invalidation Many MySQL application do not need absolutely up to date data, something… make it cool again. The question is whenever anyone from “MySQL Market Players” – Oracle, MariaDB, Drizzle, Percona Server, will allocate resources to…
Post: State of MySQL Market and will Replication live ?
April 9, 2008 By 29 Comments
… speak about disruption and commoditisation of Database Market, leaving this for Market talks, my interest is market of Web Applications in general. Clearly… of 90s when MySQL appeared on the market many web applications were simple and often not using database at all. MySQL did not… social graph or permissions). I would expect MySQL to continue to drill into Enterprise market during next few years but Web Applications…
Post: Watch out for Marketing benchmarks
August 23, 2006 By 7 Comments
… around MySQL limitations or design application so it uses MySQL strengths but it is other story. I am always surprised why Marketing department (not only MySQL Marketing, but any marketing) tries to…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
… better. Market is Great The market is now great for MySQL Consulting. The number of MySQL users is growing rapidly thanks for MySQL Marketing and Sales… people with significant MySQL Experience and so MySQL Consultants is great way to solve problems for a lot of companies. Marketing Diving into…
