Re: [Bacula-users] interesting news about MYSQL

2013-09-25 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2013-09-24 20:24, compdoc wrote: > I appreciate legacy hardware, but I'm a small business with newer x86_64 > hardware as are all of my customers who use mysql, so not really a concern. What business is that, spamming the net with oracle pr like we aren't getting enough of it from oracle alre

Re: [Bacula-users] interesting news about MYSQL

2013-09-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/24/13 21:24, compdoc wrote: >> The question that has to be asked, though, is "under what test > conditions". > > Well, I have to assume the tests mean on the same hardware. Which implies > changes in code. The problem is that doesn't mean a lot of the test is on hardware on which the olde

Re: [Bacula-users] interesting news about MYSQL

2013-09-24 Thread compdoc
> The question that has to be asked, though, is "under what test conditions". Well, I have to assume the tests mean on the same hardware. Which implies changes in code. The story did mention help from Facebook in the form of code. > a customer who's running 5.5 on an 8-core rented server today

Re: [Bacula-users] interesting news about MYSQL

2013-09-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/24/13 17:20, compdoc wrote: > The most obvious improvement in the new release is speed. MySQL engineer > Tomas Ulin says MySQL 5.7 is 95 per cent faster than MySQL 5.6 and 172 per > cent faster than version 5.5. The new version can achieve a peak throughput > of over 500,000 queries per secon

[Bacula-users] interesting news about MYSQL

2013-09-24 Thread compdoc
Excerpts from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/24/mysql_connect_2013/ Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven said that the team developing MySQL at Oracle is now the largest it has ever been, and is roughly twice as large as it was when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010. "Our