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Brian Aker On the Future of Databases
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an interview with MySQL Director of Technology Brian Aker that O'Reilly Media is running. Aker talks about the merger of MySQL with Sun, the challenges of designing databases for a SOA world, and what the next decade will bring as far as changes to traditional database architecture. Audio is also available. From the interview: "I think there's two things right now that are pushing the changes... The first thing that's going to push the basic old OLCP transactional database world, which... really hasn't [changed] in some time now — is really a change in the number of cores and the move to solid state disks because a lot of the... concept around database is the idea that you don't have access to enough memory. Your disk is slow, can't do random reads very well, and you maybe have one, maybe eight processors but... you look at some of the upper-end hardware and the mini-core stuff,... and you're almost looking at kind of an array of processing that you're doing; you've got access to so many processors. And well the whole story of trying to optimize... around the problem of random I/O being expensive, well that's not that big of a deal when you actually have solid state disks. So that's one whole area I think that will... cause a rethinking in... the standard Jim Gray relational database design."
Solid state disks will never match with hard disks. The price point for a spinning metal platter array will always stay ahead of the price point for SSD. A microdrive even does 8GB on what I assume is 2 sides of 1 platter... this would make a 3.5 inch drive with 8 platters 98 times bigger (surface area wise), 784GB. Of course we can do 2TiB such drives, and 20GB microdrives are feasible... 1.96TiB. 5.25 inch drives (Bigfoot hard drives) clock in at 200.5 times the surface area, 4TiB in this model.
Next year the data density on those spinning disks will go higher, and so will NAND. Let's watch the price point, especially when nanotech gives us shiny new read-write heads and super dense NAND....
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I downloaded and tried to run this MYSQL version 5.0.51a. MYSQL is a seriously flawed product in my opinion. Because it uses a web interface. Why not a PC based information box? Requiring a web browser adds to the requirements of this product.
I start the thing. OK DOS box.
I start the administrative console.
Which starts SeaMonkey which is NOT MY defalt web browser.
SeaMonkey reports it cannot get to http://localhost:4848/
Does anyone know how MYSQL might have a decent PC based administrative panel like Microsoft products do?
Does anyone know about aforementioned errors?
I would appreciate any suggestions!
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