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[RELOADED] Vote for MySQL+ community awards 2011 !

Январь 5th, 2012

[UPDATE 2011/01/11] : New poll added, vote for the best GUI client tool ! (And continue to vote for other polls)
And thanks again for your involvement. It’s time to vote again… 

First of all, I wish you a happy new year.
Many things happened last year, it was really exciting to be involved in the MySQL ecosystem.
I hope this enthusiasm will be increased this year, up to you !

To start the year, I propose the MySQL+ Community Awards 2011
It will only take 5 minutes to fill out these polls.
Answer with your heart first and then with your experience with some of these tools or services.

Polls will be closed January 31, so, vote now !
For “other” answers, please,  let me a comment with details.

Don’t hesitate to submit proposal for tools or services in the comments.
And, please, share these polls !

 

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Happy 2012 !
Cédric

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Fake O’Reilly Covers

Декабрь 19th, 2011

Fake mongodb

Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a prior post.  These have been optimized for use as black & white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images.  If you haven't done so already, you can install a Kindle screensaver hack with a couple of downloads. 

Update: I've embedded a slideshow from PicasaWeb, but it requires Flash.  If you don't see it you can click on the links below to go directly to PicasaWeb.


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Using MySQL Cluster to Protect & Scale the HDFS Namenode

Декабрь 19th, 2011

The MySQL Cluster product team is always interested to see new and innovative uses of the database. Last week, a team of students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden blogged about their use of MySQL Cluster in creating a scalable and highly available HDFS Namenode.

There are many established use cases of MySQL Cluster in the web, cloud/SaaS, telecoms and even flight control systems – you can see those we are allowed to talk about publicly here

The KTH team has been working on a project to move all of the metadata from the HDFS / Hadoop nameenode to MySQL Cluster. Why did they want to do this, you may ask? Well…:

- The namenode is a single point of failure. If it goes down, so too does the file system

- As a single server, the namenode becomes a bottleneck within heavily loaded HDFS / Hadoop deployments. As server resources are consumed and write volumes increase, so the system can grind to a halt. (And with data volumes growing around 40% per year, this will only become more common!)

So KTH decided to move metadata storage to MySQL Cluster. Why, you may ask? Well….

- MySQL Cluster already offered them a replicated, shared-nothing database, distributed across commodity hardware.

- MySQL Cluster is widely deployed with proven stability

- The metadata can be distributed across nodes to scale out capacity, while retaining complete consistency to the clients and eliminating any Single Point of Failure

- Linear scaling of operations per second across the cluster, as new namenodes are added.

Access to the cluster is via the MySQL Cluster Connector for Java, providing a NoSQL, Java based ORM with very low latency. You can learn more about this ClusterJ API here

Of course, the work at KTH is on-going with future optimizations planned – which we will follow with interest.

So how can you determine if MySQL Cluster is the right choice for your new project? We have just updated our MySQL Cluster Evaluation Guide (note, this will directly open the pdf).

This update is based around the latest MySQL Cluster 7.2 Development Release which includes a series of enhancements to further broaden the use case of MySQL Cluster, including:

- 70x higher JOIN performance with Adaptive Query Localization pushing JOIN operations down to MySQL Cluster’s data

- Native Key-Value Memcached interface to the cluster allowing schema and schemaless storage

- New cross-data center scalability enhancements

MySQL Cluster is not a fit for every use-case, but by downloading the Evaluation Guide, you’ll get a clear picture of where MySQL Cluster can be useful to you, and best practices in planning and executing your evaluation.

Let us know of other interesting use-cases in the comments below


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451 CAOS Links. 2011.12.02

Декабрь 2nd, 2011

Talend delivers v5. Zentyal raises series A. The TCO of OSS. And more.

# Talend announced version 5 of its data integration suite, adding business process management capabilities via an OEM relationship with BonitaSoft. Yves De Montcheuil explained the name changes in version 5.

# Zentyal closed a series A venture capital funding of over $1m by Open Ocean Capital.

# The London School of Economics released a report on the total cost of ownership of open source software.

# Couchbase announced the availability of the Couchbase Hadoop Connector, developed in conjunction with Cloudera.

# Rackspace announced the private beta of Rackspace MySQL Cloud Database.

# The debate over the role of open source foundations in the Git era continued, including a follow-up by the instigator, Mikael Rogers, a rallying cry for autonomy from Ceki Gülcü, and Simon Phipps warning about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

# Marco Abis is stepping down as CEO of Sourcesense.

# NGINX usage has grown almost 300% over the last year, according to Netcraft figures discussed by Royal Pingdom.

# The Wireless Innovation Forum announced the formation of the Open Source Framework for Commercial Baseband Software project.


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451 CAOS Links 2011.11.18

Ноябрь 18th, 2011

Rapid7 secures new funding. Microsoft drops Dryad. And more.

# Rapid7 secured $50m in series C funding.

# Microsoft confirmed that it is ditching its Dryad project in favour of Apache Hadoop.

# Arun Murthy provided more details of Apache Hadop 0.23.

# The Google Plugin for Eclipse and GWT Designer projects are now fully open source.

# openSUSE released version 12.1.

# Amazon released the source code of the Kindle Fire.

# Black Duck Software joined the GENIVI Alliance.

# dotCloud announced the availability of the top three databases MySQL, MongoDB and Redis on its PaaS.


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VC funding for Hadoop and NoSQL tops $350m

Ноябрь 15th, 2011

451 Research has today published a report looking at the funding being invested in Apache Hadoop- and NoSQL database-related vendors. The full report is available to clients, but non-clients can find a snapshot of the report, along with a graphic representation of the recent up-tick in funding, over at our Too Much Information blog.


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CAOS Theory Podcast 2011.11.11

Ноябрь 11th, 2011

Topics for this podcast:

*Continuent extends MySQL replication to Oracle Database
*CFEngine updates server automation software
*Devops moving mainstream
*Neo Technology integrates with Spring
*451 CAOS report from Hadoop World

iTunes or direct download (26:56, 4.6MB)


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451 CAOS Links 2011.10.18

Октябрь 18th, 2011

DOCOMO adopts, invests in Couchbase. Apache Cassandra reaches 1.0. And more.

# DOCOMO Innovations adopted Couchbase as DOCOMO Capital invested in the NoSQL database vendor.

# The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Cassandra v1.0.

# Nuxeo announced the availability of Nuxeo Cloud.

# SGI formed a distribution relationship with Cloudera and announced a record-breaking performance benchmark.

# Rapid7 announced the launch of Metasploit Community Edition.

# VoltDB announced the general availability of VoltOne.

# Juniper Networks licensed OpenNMS to add fault and performance management capabilities to the Junos Space software platform.

# The Free Software Foundation warned against Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” system.


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451 CAOS Links 2011.10.07

Октябрь 7th, 2011

OpenStack Foundation. New Pentaho CEO. And more.

# Rackspace announced its intention to form an independent OpenStack Foundation.

# HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system for its Public Cloud.

# Pentaho appointed Quentin Gallivan as its new CEO.

# Hortonworks continued the discussion about contributions to Apache Hadoop.

# Bob Bickel explained why CloudBees is not, itself, open source.

# Google announced the limited preview release of Google Cloud SQL.

# Eucalyptus Systems, Nebula and Virtual Bridges joined the Linux Foundation.

# Dave Neary discussed the different types of community in relation to the Tizen project.

# Akamai joined the OpenStack community.

# Daniel Abadi provided his perspective on Oracle’s NoSQL Database.

# One more thing…
Apple’s relationship with open source may be somewhat tenuous – Paul Rooney provides some background – but given the impact Steve Jobs has made on the industry as a whole it seems wrong not to mark his passing in some way. We’ll leave the words to the company he created.


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Webinar: NoSQL, NewSQL, Hadoop and the future of Big Data management

Октябрь 6th, 2011

Join me for a webinar where I discuss how the recent changes and trends in big data management effect the enterprise.  This event is sponsored by Red Rock and RockSolid.

Overview:

It is an exciting and interesting time to be involved in data. More change of influence has occurred in the database management in the last 18 months than has occurred in the last 18 years. New technologies such as NoSQL & Hadoop and radical redesigns of existing technologies, like NewSQL , will change dramatically how we manage data moving forward. 

These technologies bring with them possibilities both in terms of the scale of data retained but also in how this data can be utilized as an information asset. The ability to leverage Big Data to drive deep insights will become a key competitive advantage for many organisations in the future.

Join Tony Bain as he takes us through both the high level drivers for the changes in technology, how these are relevant to the enterprise and an overview of the possibilities a Big Data strategy can start to unlock.

https://redrockevents.webex.com/redrockevents/onstage/g.php?t=a&d=869100422

 


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