Opening introduction from Colin Charles got us started. Karen Tegan Padir VP MySQL & Software Infrastructure was the opening keynote.
She comes from a strong tech background and is passionate about open source, the communities and how to make a successful product.
There isn’t a person that doesn’t go a day without interacting with a website or hardware system that uses a MySQL database.
The big news was the announcement of MySQL 5.4 – Performance & Scalability. Key features include.
- InnoDb scalability 16way x86 and 64 way CMT servers
- subquery optimization
- new query algorithms
- improved stored procedures, and prepared statements
- enhanced Information Schema
- improved DTrace Support
More information at MySQL 5.4 Announcement Details… .
Other key points includes:
- Ken Jacobs announces today an Embedded Innodb with a powerful API (not SQL based). Read more at Innobase Introduces Embedded InnoDB
- MySQLCluster 7.0 is also released today. Some benchmarks 4.3x improvements. New features also include LDAP support.
- The next release of MySQL Query Analyzer, 2.1 announced.
- Sun announces a commitment to accept contributions from the community.
- Community also gets the Monthly Rapid Updates.
- MySQL Drizzle Project is discussed as a technology incubator.
Partners of the year: Intel, Infobright and Lifeboard.
Appliation of the year: Zappos, Alcatel-lucent and Symantec.
Community members of the year: Marc Delisle, Ronald Bradford, Shlomi Noach.
