Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage EnginesNew Version of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database Delivers up to 15 Percent Higher Performance for Large-Scale Enterprise Applications SANTA CLARA, CA April 15, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new and enhanced third-party support for the MySQL 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 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 "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 "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 "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.
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