We are working on Zmanda Management Console for our MySQL backup product line: Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. ZRM for MySQL is an enterprise backup and recovery solution for MySQL.

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Ever since I wrote my blog entry about Google Gears and the query tool for the browser embedded offline Google Gears database service, I have been wondering how MySQL might fit in here.

Google Gears is an open source browser extension created by Google. It provides a framework that allows the creation of offline webbrowser applications. At the moment it provides three services:

Local Server

A data store for static resources. This allows efficient caching of images, scripts and webpages

Database

An embedded relation database management system, based on SQLite. SQLite should be familiar to most PHP developers, as it is being shipped with PHP since version 5

Worker Pool

A form of threading support inside the browser that allows webapplications to initiate long running processes without hampering the responsiveness of the user interface.

All these services can be accessed from within the browser using a javascript API.

Users only needs to install the extension in order for the browser to be able to access the services when browsing pages.

If you want to get an immediate taste of the database service, be sure to install Google Gears and take a look at my offline, browser-based database client.