Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines
Oracle, Kickfire, PrimeBase Technologies and Infobright Join Sun in
Supporting the World's Most Popular Open Source Database
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) April 15, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced new and enhanced
third-party support for the MySQL(TM) database's unique pluggable
storage engine architecture. The MySQL Certified Storage Engine Program (www.mysql.com/engines)
enables commercial and community database engine developers to certify
that their software has been tested and is compatible with Sun's MySQL
Database Server – helping to assure MySQL
users that these certified engines have reached high-level standards of
usability, performance and integration.
Sun also helps promote these third-party solutions to its MySQL database
customers and open source community through a range of co-marketing
activities.
“MySQL's innovative and modular design allows
users to mix-and-match specialized database engines depending on their
applications' needs -- providing optimal performance and functionality,
while avoiding an inefficient 'one-size-fits-all' approach that can lead
to complexity and bloat,” said Zack Urlocker,
VP of Products, Database Group, Sun Microsystems. “Our
certification program gives community- and partner-developed engines an
equal footing with the software that our own engineers build.”
The following database engines are a part of the certified partner
program:
InnoDB
Developed by Innobase OY, a subsidiary of Oracle(R) Corporation, InnoDB
is the most popular transactional database engine for MySQL, with
integrated support for crash recovery, row level locking, and
referential integrity for MySQL applications. Sun distributes and
supports InnoDB in both MySQL Enterprise and the MySQL Community Server.
Innobase is a MySQL Enterprise Platinum partner and a Gold Sponsor of
the 2008 MySQL User Conference.
An early-adopter version of InnoDB Plug-in for MySQL 5.1 (announced at
the conference), is available under the GPL open source license and can
be downloaded for free at http://www.innodb.com/support/downloads
and the MySQL Community Software Forge at forge.mysql.com/projects/storage_engines.
The new InnoDB Plugin for MySQL allows MySQL users to dynamically load a
new version of the InnoDB storage engine into the MySQL server for
greater performance, flexibility, reliability and ease of use. The
InnoDB Plugin for MySQL introduces data compression and the ability to
quickly create indexes, among other important new features.
Heikki Tuuri, the founder of Innobase and chief architect of InnoDB,
said, "InnoDB is well-known for being fast, reliable, and proven. With
the release of the InnoDB Plugin for MySQL, we are supporting MySQL's
pluggable storage engine architecture, and demonstrating our on-going
commitment to the MySQL community."
Kickfire
Kickfire provides the first high-performance, easy-to-use database
appliance for the burgeoning MySQL market. Based on a patented SQL chip
that packs the power of tens of CPUs into an exceptionally small,
low-power form factor — Kickfire delivers a
quantum leap in performance efficiency avoiding the hardware build out,
power, and space costs of today's data warehouse and database offerings.
By delivering astoundingly fast query performance out of the box,
Kickfire enables organizations to use MySQL for demanding business
intelligence, reporting, and analysis rather than migrating to costly,
non-open source alternatives. Kickfire appliances scale from gigabytes
to terabytes and are based on commodity hardware and Linux. They
leverage existing storage as well as the openness of MySQL and its
entire ecosystem to provide compatibility and rapid deployment.
“MySQL’s pluggable
storage engine architecture, ease-of-use, and market leadership were the
primary reasons Kickfire selected MySQL as our appliance platform,”
said Raj Cherabuddi, CEO, president, and co-founder of Kickfire. “MySQL’s
data warehousing capabilities and broad tool support, combined with the
stellar query performance of the Kickfire storage engine and SQL Chip,
will bring a unique enterprise-class business intelligence solution to
the fast-growing MySQL data warehousing market.”
PBXT
PBXT is a highly-scalable, transactional storage engine for the MySQL
Database Server. The product is sponsored by the open source company
PrimeBase Technologies (www.primebase.org),
a MySQL Platinum-level Partner. With a "write-once" log-based
architecture, PBXT is ideally suited for Solid State Drive technology
(SSD). Key features of PBXT include: Fully ACID compliant, MVCC
(multi-version concurrency control), foreign key support and streaming
of media data including video, audio (e.g. MP3), images and other binary
large objects (BLOBs) with the MySQL Database Server.
“As the first pluggable storage engine to
come out of the MySQL community, PBXT is already an important part of
the MySQL ecosystem,” said Paul McCullagh,
CTO of PrimeBase Technologies. “MySQL's
pluggable storage engine architecture is a true case of 'the whole is
greater than the sum of the parts', and we are pleased to be able to
contribute.”
Brighthouse
With its Brighthouse solution, Infobright has fundamentally reinvented
data warehouse architecture. Brighthouse represents a departure from
other data warehouse solutions that require building and maintaining
data partitions and indexes, or investing in large hardware systems. In
sharp contrast, Brighthouse achieves breakthrough performance --
particularly for highly complex, ad-hoc queries -- with its flexible,
patent-pending Knowledge Grid and integrated Optimizer.
“A key part of our strategy is developing
winning partnerships, and the pairing of MySQL and Infobright provides a
powerful combination that brings together best-of-class solutions,”
said Miriam Tuerk, president & CEO of Infobright. “The
open source database know-how and market presence from MySQL combined
with Infobright’s domain expertise and
market-leading position in analytic data warehousing will enable our
customers to easily access an offering that is quick to implement, easy
to scale and deliver a rapid time-to-value. We are proud to be
recognized as the first data warehouse provider to be named a MySQL
Storage Engine Partner and look forward to driving additional value to
our customers.”
In addition, MySQL offers a number of its own storage engines, including
MyISAM, Cluster, Memory, and Archive. Falcon, MySQL’s
newest transactional database engine, is being designed for
large-memory, multi-threaded and multi-core CPU applications such as
high-volume Web sites. There is also a new experimental crash-safe
version of MyISAM being developed under the code-name Maria. Falcon and
Maria are available now in special preview versions at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads.
Many MySQL users and customers have developed their own custom database
engines for their specific application requirements. The MySQL Web site
provides resources and documentation at http://www.mysql.com/engines.
About Sun's MySQL Database
MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world.
Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL
to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical
business systems, and packaged software. At http://www.mysql.com,
Sun provides corporate users with commercial subscriptions and services,
and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, MySQL, and The Network is the
Computer are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the United
States and other countries. ORACLE is a registered trademark of Oracle
Corporation.
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