Many startups depend on MySQL. Check out the list of keynote speakers from past and present MySQL User Conferences. There are things to make better and new features to add like better support for dynamic schemas (documents) and auto-sharding. But existing deployments aren't in crisis mode and it is being used for new deployments. Maybe I have an agenda...

Many startups depend on MySQL. Check out the list of keynote speakers from past and present MySQL User Conferences. There are things to make better and new features to add like better support for dynamic schemas (documents) and auto-sharding. But existing deployments aren't in crisis mode and it is being used for new deployments. Maybe I have an agenda...

My kids watched the new Lego movie today and spent the rest of the day repeating "Everything is amazing". I spent a few hours reading MongoDB documentation to help a friend who uses it. Everything wasn't awesome for all of us. I try to be a pessimist when reading database documentation. If you spend any time near production then you spend a lot of time...

Pardon the rant but the winter storm has kept me in a hotel away from home for a few days. I exchanged email this week with someone pitching a solution to a problem I don't have (MySQL failover). But by "I" I really mean the awesome operations team with whom I share an office. The pitch got off to a bad start. It is probably better to compliment the...

What is a modern database? We have some terms that wander between marketing and technical descriptions - NewSQL, NoSQL. We have much needed work on write-optimized database algorithms - Tokutek, LevelDB, RocksDB, HBase, Cassandra. We also get reports of amazing performance. I think there is too much focus on peak performance and not enough on predictable...

The UC schedule has been published and there are several talks from the database teams at Facebook. Small Data and MySQL by Domas Mituzas- small data is another name for OLTP. Given the popularity of big data we think that small data also deserves attention.Asynchronous MySQL by Chip Turner - this describes the work done by Chip's team to implement...