Comments on: Sun acquires MySQL!

By: ZUrlocker

ZUrlocker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:15:39 +0000

Don,
thanks for your posting. I’ve asked our director of technical support and VP of Engineering to contact you to get more information about what version you are running and what platform. With that information we can determine if there are fixes to the threading and concurrency issues you’ve noted.

We are working closely with InnoDB in these areas and have incorporated some fixes to improve autoinc performance in 5.1.22 (RC) and also adaptive cache patch in 5.0.54 (GA). InnoDB has been great to work with and the situation with them has been “business as usual”.

We are also reviewing all of the Google patches, and I apologize that this has taken longer to review and test than we have expected. (Mea culpa on this.)

We’re also looking forward to working with Sun in these areas. They have great expertise in scaling performance.

If you can send more info through a support incident that would be helpful. Or contact me directly via email.
–Zack

Zack Urlocker
ZUrlocker (at) MySQL

By: Dan Creswell

Dan Creswell — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:34:47 +0000

I have little evidence to suggest that this is a problem but I would note that InnoDB is owned by Oracle these days:

http://www.oracle.com/innodb/index.html

Perhaps this causes some conflicts/issues that slow down progress in that area.

By: Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:17:58 +0000

I think it’s a brilliant game changing move by Sun, and will be generally good for all concerned. It should both quicken the pace of innovation and solidify the quality and performance of MySQL. There are other fascinating possibilities dimly showing in the tea leaves as well.