I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :
- MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition are feature identical. Wow, that was a suprise to me. I hate it when the Community Edition is distributed as "crippleware".
- Kickfire offers a SQL chip. If I understood correctly, this is a piece of silicon that speeds up your SQL statements. Wow again. I thought the time for custom built silicon for a specific purpose came and went, and the market has long ago decided to pack the intelligence into software, and to use commodity processor units as base. I guess I was wrong here.
- Lastly, I really liked Robin's MySQL value proposition. To quote Robin : "...MySQL offers 80-90% of the functionality of expensive proprietary databases at 10-15% of the cost...". As value statements go, this is as straight forward as it gets. Wow, for the third time.
Actually MySQL Community also includes the show profile command which isn't available in MySQL Enterprise
Posted by Eric Bergen on October 18, 2008 at 05:04 PM PDT #