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Google Releases MySQL Enhancements
An anonymous reader noted that "Google has released its internally developed enhancements to MySQL to the open source community this week. Changes include improvements in replication, high availability configuration, and performance." It'll be interesting to see if the changes they made are of interest to other places using MySQL.
Umm, InnoDB is an engine for MySQL, they are still using MySQL. They just said they use the InnoDB engine exclusively rather than the other engines such as MyISAM. They probably never used MyISAM since it doesn't have foreign keys or transactions. No respected DBA would ever use MyISAM.
This is a tad off topic, but MySQL deserves its spot up there.
We've been using MySQL for several years, and recently we decided to purchase the MySQL Enterprise license. Their monitoring tools are AWESOME! I get a text message if a server goes down, replication stops, etc. There are also historical reports and graphs of very detailed information that, I think, you can't get with MRTG and other SNMP monitoring tools. It also gives me suggestions for improving MySQL's performance on that particular server. Even better, it's dirt cheap compared to the other enterprise offerings, and you get support with it.
All in all, I love MySQL, and Google releasing code that makes it better can only be good IMO.
When something goes wrong with mysql or postgres you get a real error message which tells you exactly what went wrong. You type the error message into google and you get the answer.
When something goes wrong in SQL server you get a cryptic error message which doesn't say anything such as "multi step process caused an error". You type that into google and you get a thousand people who posted the same question and maybe twenty possible answers "which worked for me". You then spend the rest of the month trying each and every one of those solutions till you either fix the problem or you work around it.
SQL server is one of the hardest databases to work with no matter what the admin interface is like.
Oh and 2005 admin interface is a step back in usability and functionality.
evil is as evil does