Gary's Shared Google Reader ItemsIt’s a strange world. Last night, I attended my first Vancouver MySQL meetup. This morning, my google reader is filled with news that Sun is buying MySQL.
We met at the Milestone’s on Robson. At the peak of the evening, there were 8 people out. I think the goal of the meetup was to talk about clustering, [...]
LongJump’s Database as a Service was featured on TechCrunch today. It appears to be a competitor to SimpleDB:
LongJump’s DaaS provides a complete environment for hosting a database that’s highly secure and web-enabled while simultaneously cutting the costs and easing the hassles for entrepreneurs and developers who would otherwise have to purchase a database server, provision [...]
Morgan Tocker has some EC2 benchmarks for MySQL. The performance doesn’t stack up all that well. He says EC2 tends to be inconsistent, which makes sense on a shared machine.
It would be interesting to see a Xen VM in the mix for comparison. It may give clues as to how loaded up each Amazon Dom0 [...]
MySQL Workbench is set to fill a gap in my DBA needs. Unfortunately, no Mac support till 2008, from the download page:
Please note that at this point only the Windows Beta version is available. Linux and OS X releases will be available in 2008.
Boo-urns. I seem to remember a disproportionate number of Macs at the [...]
There was a discussion on the CentOS mailing list the other day about Oracle Cluster File System 2. I went and checked it out. Well, I read some docs about it anyway.
It’s released under the GPL and it’s not really just for Oracle. It looks to be a share nothing type file system layer. Oracle [...]
