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, CA. — 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.
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marketplace. Guided by a singular vision — “The Network is the
Computer”(TM) — Sun drives network participation through shared innovation,
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