… me. Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are… to understand and support. Interesting enough the fact MySQL is Open Source puts it in a worse shape than Oracle and other… all really need MySQL to run ? At this point all Open Source storage engines out where are for MySQL but why could…
Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?
December 30, 2006 By 86 Comments
Open source != free People who think open source always equates to free haven’t seem the bill yet. …. Certainly there’s “free” open source software, much of it is very good. But a complex piece of software like MySQL with it continued…
Post: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
… products OpenSourced – to name OpenSolaris, OpenJava, OpenOffice, and develops new open sourced software (see above about videocodec), MySQL tries to hide something. Year… ? Does not MySQL believe in open source? Or just partially believe ? Why does Sun decide to develop new software under OpenSource license, but…
Post: Using VIEW to reduce number of tables used
September 28, 2007 By 12 Comments
Many Open Source software solutions use database per user (or set of tables per …, which is costly. Of course if you can simply rewrite software to store multiple users per table it is best way… too much work and also requires constant patches as new software versions come out. It is very tempting to use VIEWs…
Post: Speaking at POSSCON
March 23, 2012 By 1 Comment
…,SC next week (March 28). My talk will be about Open Source software Percona Produces – Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB…. If you want to get a birds eye view about Open Source software Percona has created this is a great talk to attend…
Post: Percona turns 5 years old
August 1, 2011 By 11 Comments
… hot-backup tool for InnoDB, as well as many other open-source software engineering projects. We’re happy that we’ve achieved this… the business ecosystem and third-party providers, both closed and open source. Finally, much gratitude is due to Oracle, and also to…
Post: Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8
June 13, 2011 By 34 Comments
… round-trip transactions should be in an acceptable range. It opens the possibility for active master – active master setups. You can… that this solution is available for MySQL users as Free / Open Source Software. “Where is the catch?”, you may ask. Yes, there are…/Galera based on XtraDB, but it is only available in source code, and you may need system based on RedHat 6…
Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?
January 2, 2007 By 86 Comments
… our output of free and open source software significantly thanks to the fact that we have paying customers. Open source business models are still evolving…
Post: Percona Welcomes MySQL 5.6!
February 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
… Percona Open Source Software MySQL 5.6 Integration From a product perspective, we’re working hard towards MySQL 5.6 integration with Percona Software… our new monthly technical newsletter, which conveniently summarizes all new software releases and popular blog posts. We are also scheduling many…
Post: Announcing Percona Server 5.6.6-60.1 Alpha
September 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
…, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the EXPERIMENTAL Percona Software Repositories, although currently only for RHEL/CentOS as we are… the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can…
