http://www.osnews.com/ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams OSNews version 4 donotreply@osnews.com (Adam Scheinberg) donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:29:20 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com/ 120 http://www.osnews.com/story/22277/Cloudera_Desktop_Released_Simplifies_Hadoop_Even_More/ http://www.osnews.com/story/22277/Cloudera_Desktop_Released_Simplifies_Hadoop_Even_More/ A while back, we covered the release of the free Cloudera distribution of Hadoop-- handy software to manage data across a multiplicity of servers-- the same software behind Yahoo!, Facebook, and other successful companies. Though Hadoop and Cloudera's Hadoop have been truly stellar at what they do, it's all essentially been done via command line, which for many people isn't the most productive or user-friendly type of interface. The folks at Cloudera knew this, so they've gone ahead and created a graphical interface to communicate with Hadoop. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:50:23 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Databases 0 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/21603/The_State_of_MySQL/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21603/The_State_of_MySQL/ Jeremy Zawodny takes a look at the state of MySQL. "Robust development from outside the Sun/MySQL sphere, new storage engines and the return of Monty are just some of the signs that MySQL is healthy, despite may reports to the contrary." Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:21:07 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News linuxmag http://www.osnews.com/story/21535/MySQL_Forked_Beyond_Repair_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21535/MySQL_Forked_Beyond_Repair_/ Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions the effect recent developments in the MySQL community will have on MySQL's future in the wake of Oracle's acquisition of Sun. Even before Oracle announced its buyout, there were signs of strain within the MySQL community, with key MySQL employees exiting and forks of the MySQL codebase arising, including Widenius' MariaDB. Thu, 21 May 2009 22:55:48 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Databases 23 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News snydeq http://www.osnews.com/story/21140/Cloudera_Distribution_of_Hadoop_Available_Makes_Hadoop_Easy/ http://www.osnews.com/story/21140/Cloudera_Distribution_of_Hadoop_Available_Makes_Hadoop_Easy/ Hadoop, the same software that lies at the heart of successful companies such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and others, has been proven time and again with said companies to be a successful data management server, keeping data secure and fault-free spread across multiple servers. It isn't the easiest piece of software to configure, however, which is why the Cloudera company has just announced a freely downloadable and easier to use custom distribution of Hadoop to bring the power of entities like Google to smaller businesses. Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:03:38 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jordan Spencer Cunningham) Databases 1 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 Feature http://www.osnews.com/story/20918/MySQL_Founder_Leaves_Sun/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20918/MySQL_Founder_Leaves_Sun/ Michael "Monty" Widenius, original author and founder of MySQL, has announced he has now resigned from Sun to start his own company, Monty Program Ab. Rumours of his departure had circulated last September and Widenius now confirms these had an element of truth to them. According to him, his issues with MySQL 5.1 GA were pivotal in the decision making process and his public warnings of those problems "had the wanted effect". That effect was an agreement to stay on for three months to "help Sun work out things in MySQL development" and allow Sun to "create an optimal role for me". Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:45:52 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 2 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News diegocg http://www.osnews.com/story/20624/An_Atomic_Level_of_Data_Storage/ http://www.osnews.com/story/20624/An_Atomic_Level_of_Data_Storage/ In an almost indiscernible and confusing article filled with various scientific terms that most cringe to hear, it was described how in October of 2008 scientists successfully stored and retrieved data on the nucleus of an atom-- and all for two short lived seconds. With this new type of storage, a traditional bit can now be both zero and one at the same time, but in order to understand just how this is possible, translate the article linked above to plain English. Data integrity returns after two seconds at 90% and storage is obviously impermanent, so there are many kinks to work out before atomic storage actually serves a purpose, but give these scientists a couple of decades, and it's theoretical that we'll one day have nuclear drives the size of USB drives today (or MicroSD cards, or why not even specs of dust?) that can hold hundreds of terabytes-- even pentabytes-- of information. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:49:10 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OSNews Staff) Databases 20 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News weildish http://www.osnews.com/story/19724/MySQL_Remains_Fully_Functional_and_Open_Source_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19724/MySQL_Remains_Fully_Functional_and_Open_Source_/ When Sun announced it would offer certain plugins and features for enterprise customers only, and maybe even make them closed-source, the open source community was up in arms. It seems that MySQL and Sun have listened to the criticism, as these plans are now off the table. In fact, these plans did not originate within Sun in the first place. Thu, 08 May 2008 19:13:59 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19525/Oracle_Expands_Its_Linux_Base/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19525/Oracle_Expands_Its_Linux_Base/ "So how is Oracle doing with its Oracle Unbreakable Linux? Pretty well. According to Monica Kumar, senior director Linux and open source product marketing at Oracle, there are now 2000 customers for Oracle's Linux. Those customers will now be getting a bonus from Oracle: free clustering software." Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:01:46 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 9 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News http://www.osnews.com/story/19207/Firebird_2008_Roadmap_Published/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19207/Firebird_2008_Roadmap_Published/ The Firebird RDBMS 2008 Roadmap is now publicly available. During this year, Firebird users can expect two final releases (2.1 and 2.5) and the first alpha of FB 3. Many new features are planned, as described in the roadmap. In addition, RC1 of 2.1 has been released. Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:14:15 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 7 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News Carlos H. Cantu http://www.osnews.com/story/19170/Sun_Buys_MySQL_AB/ http://www.osnews.com/story/19170/Sun_Buys_MySQL_AB/ MySQL AB and Sun have announced that MySQL has been bought by Sun. "Sun Microsystems today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately USD 1 billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's position in enterprise IT to now include the USD 15 billion database market. Today's announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of platforms for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source contributor." More here. Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:34:04 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 57 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News BluenoseJake http://www.osnews.com/story/18527/MySQL_Ends_Distribution_of_Enterprise_Source_Tarballs/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18527/MySQL_Ends_Distribution_of_Enterprise_Source_Tarballs/ "MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after the company announced a split between its paid and free versions. While the Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License, MySQL is making it harder for non-customers to access the source code." Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:04:39 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 32 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News wakeupneo http://www.osnews.com/story/18120/Size_Isn_t_Everything_for_the_Modest_Creator_of_SQLite/ http://www.osnews.com/story/18120/Size_Isn_t_Everything_for_the_Modest_Creator_of_SQLite/ "In a world of people obsessed by turning the tiniest idea into something profitable, Dr Richard Hipp's best-known software stands out for two reasons - he actively disclaims copyright in it; and at a time when multi-megabyte installations are booming, he has a self-imposed limit on the size of his product: 250KB. And he's stuck to both aims. 'I think we've got 15 kilobytes of spare space,' he says of the headroom left in the code." Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:37:11 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 15 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News alcibiades http://www.osnews.com/story/17312/SQL_Server_2005_Gets_Second_Service_Pack/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17312/SQL_Server_2005_Gets_Second_Service_Pack/ Microsoft has released a second free service pack for its popular SQL Server 2005 database application. The update makes SQL Server 2005 compatible with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007 suite, and adds a number of data compression, manageability and interoperability enhancements. Microsoft has also changed the terms under which SQL Server 2005 can be run using virtualisation software. Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:48:51 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 3 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News george http://www.osnews.com/story/17266/Paper_Database_Benchmark/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17266/Paper_Database_Benchmark/ DevLoop has just published a free paper (US mirror) [zipped .pdf] benchmarking some popular database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, DB2, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere, on Linux using JDBC. The focus here is on non-real setups where we can analyze the individual aspects that might affect system performance. The code is available (GPL) so that anyone can reproduce the results. Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:30:55 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 16 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News Antoine Martin http://www.osnews.com/story/17168/Unlovable_Linux_/ http://www.osnews.com/story/17168/Unlovable_Linux_/ "At the time, most of us thought Oracle undercutting Red Hat's Linux business with its Unbreakable Linux was a big deal. Would customers flock to Oracle's cut-rate version of RHEL? Would Red Hat be pounded by Larry Ellison's minions? After a few months, the answers appear to be: No, it wasn't a big deal; and no; and no." Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:53:45 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) Databases 24 http://www.osnews.com/topics/29 News WillM