Major Bug fixes in MySQL released by Sun

Sun decided to upgrade MySQL from the open source database after its first MySQL conference after its acquisition. Sun will use this activity to release MySQL5.1 in California. The new version adds several new features to make the database more suitable for key business applications of large enterprises. "Although 5.1 seems to be a minor upgrade, it already has some

Sun decided to upgrade MySQL from the open source database after its first MySQL conference after its acquisition. Sun will use this activity to release MySQL 5.1 in California. The new version adds several new features to make the database more suitable for key business applications of large enterprises. "Although 5.1 seems to be a minor upgrade, it already has some

Sun decided to upgrade MySQL from the open source database after its first MySQL conference after its acquisition. Sun will use this activity to release MySQL 5.1 in California. The new version adds several new features to make the database more suitable for key business applications of large enterprises."Although 5.1 sounds like a minor upgrade, it already has some outstanding features ,"Zack Urlocker, vice president of Sun's MySQL product department, said. "Maybe we should call it 6.0, because there are a lot of upgrades included here, and we have been studying this for years ."

5.1 of the benefits are mainly reflected in partition, event management, row-based replication, and disk-based clusters. they have all become standard upgrade features provided by IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft, but they must help MySQL improve its competitiveness in an environment where performance and scale are crucial.

"We were really proud to have fixed a number of bugs in version 5.0," Urlocker said. "So 5.1 not only has higher reliability, in addition, the performance is improved by about 20%. This upgrade will bring a significant performance improvement and scalability enhancement."

MySQL once said that in the first quarter, March 31 was released before 5.1, and some developers are waiting for the release of the new version. A British user said last month: "I'm a little disappointed that the first quarter is almost over, but there is no indication that MySQL 5.1 will be released."

Next week's discussion will focus on what aspects should developers of the transaction engine MySQL focus on during the development process. today, most customers are using InnoDB. This software has become a habit for Oracle a few years ago. MySQL has been developing a substitute called Falcon, this will be released together with MySQL 6.0.

At the same time, Michael Widenius, one of the earliest MySQL developers, is developing a transaction engine called Maria, which was released in May.

"The goal of the Maria development team is to make Maria the default transaction engine of MySQL AB, And the Falcon team also has the same goal," Michael Widenius wrote in his blog.

Developers are also looking for a new road map for MySQL, in areas not provided after Sun's acquisition of $1 billion, they are looking for some development models that Sun will not interfere with MySQL's open source code, and some aspects that it has promised not to do.

Sun seems to be carefully collecting market information about Falcon, and the software will be optimized to WEB applications in "multi-core, multi-threaded environments," Urlocker said. sun has been using a similar language on its multi-core and multi-thread processors on busy servers.

In addition, Poodle is very optimistic about this acquisition. Sun is a large company that provides both free and paid products, which will help MySQL to enter the enterprise market. "I am not saying that MySQL has been comparable to those of large products at a certain level, but it is growing rapidly," he said."

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