… let community play with it and complain. This is true Open Source development and it takes guts. I should praise Drizzle… available from its early and buggy days. I should praise Falcon and PBXT teams which were not shy to show us…. Though I think Google do not position themselves as doing Open Source development but rather being kind enough to publicly share…
Comment: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… in open source (and also in free software, to be specific) and I would list for instance the Cluster engine and Falcon… the add-ons they like. This is the power of open source – anyone can produce whatever additions or extentions they like… (read: profitable) business built on the principles of Free and Open Source Software. The learnings we make can be useful for…
Post: Will Percona Support Drizzle ?
August 6, 2008 By 10 Comments
… support wide variety of systems, and we’re just being open about our experience with such system and ability to help… cases. It is similar to storage engines – will we recommend Falcon or Maria instead of Innodb ? Sure we will, in cases… we will have some people actively working on Drizzle remains open question. As customers will be interested in having Drizzle work…
Post: Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT
November 20, 2009 By 2 Comments
… using MVCC is one of the main differences in the Falcon storage engine. PBXT supports row-level locking and foreign keys… locks when calling back into MySQL to do things like open a table, create a session structure (THD) or create a… needs to do recovery. In PBXT’s case this means opening tables (reading a .frm file), which requires creating a THD…
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
…. If we compare price tag of MySQL to other public “Open Source” companies – we can see it being about 1/4… able to work with Oracle (Innodb Owner) well or will Falcon be pushed hard as Innodb replacement even if it is… as good as they can with Linux ? Will Sun follow Open Source spirit of MySQL Founders (and I mean Founders because…
Post: Speaking on OSCON 2007
July 3, 2007 By 2 Comments
… 23-27. Our talk will be about Open Source Transactional Storage Engines meaning Innodb, Falcon, Solid and PBXT. We’ll look into… be taken care of on it. We’re also organizing Open Source Full Text Search BOF to hear from people working…
Post: Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People
June 15, 2007 By 9 Comments
… to understand and support. Interesting enough the fact MySQL is Open Source puts it in a worse shape than Oracle and… no idea how to write storage engines or optimize for Falcon storage engine. Relatively simple 1000 page book which would cover… all really need MySQL to run ? At this point all Open Source storage engines out where are for MySQL but why…
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… OSCON 2007 , Portland,OR , July 2007 Presentation looks into PBXT, Falcon and SolidDB Storage engines and compares them in terms of…: New Features in versions 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 Open Source Forum 2005, Moscow, Russia Presentation speaks about new features… about MySQL Performance. Download MySQL and PHP for Web Applications Open Source Revolution 2002, Stockholm, Sweden Presentation about MySQL Server features…
Post: MySQL 5.1 went to GA. Was it a good move ?
December 10, 2008 By 4 Comments
…. There is also very interesting reading on MySQL 5.1 open bugs So how do I take it and where do… know people who are happy with MySQL 6.0 and Falcon stability for months now – it works for their workload. So…
Post: MySQL Users Conference Presentation Proposals
October 24, 2007 By 12 Comments
… Performance We’re looking at performance at Open Source Transactional Storage engine MySQL – Innodb, Falcon, SolidDB, PBXT and analyzing how things have…
