How Facebook Makes MySQL Scale

A few people from Facebook's database teams (yes, plural) recently gave a MySQL Tech Talk at Facebook headquarters about how Facebook uses MySQL to process 13 million queries per second. Former Facebook CTO and Quora founded Adam D'Angelo has said that Facebook is "stuck" with PHP and MySQL for legacy reasons, but it sure sounds the Facebook team is making the best of it. Video and notes after the jump.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/11/facebook-mysql-scale.php

Camouflage Software Expands Trial Version of Test Data Security Suite to include MS SQL Server

Camouflage Software Inc., a leading provider of data masking technologies, is pleased to announce the expansion of a trial version of the Camouflage® Test Data Security Suite to include MS SQL Server™ databases. St. John’s, NL November 4th, 2010 – Camouflage Software Inc., a leading provider of data masking technologies, is pleased to announce the expansion of a trial version of the Camouflage® Test Data Security Suite to include MS SQL Server™ databases. This trial version of Camouflage will allow customers to easily discover and mask sensitive information within their organizations.

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InnoDB Remains Free as Part of MySQL Community Edition

Here's what is really happening. InnoDB is free as part of the MySQL community edition, under a GPL license. For enterprise support, InnoDB is included with the exception of the Classic Edition, which uses the MyISAM storage engine.

The classic edition is an embedded database for ISVs, OEMs and VARs. It does not include InnoDB. Supported versions with InnoDB include the standard edition that costs $5,000 and a high-end version that comes with a price tag of $10,000.

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Cloud Computing and Oracle’s Standards

More often than not, lack of standardization can add to the complexity of measuring and deploying emerging technologies. Consider cloud computing, for example. The fact that cloud services can give the user on-demand computing resources makes it a very attractive prospect for many businesses. A company can choose to host their services internally (on a private cloud) or remotely (on a public cloud). Regardless of this choice, monitoring of performance, usage, and security is crucial. Generally speaking, cloud computing services result in a simplification of IT tasks, but sometimes, they can make the application environment very complex. Such complexity leads to the need for stringent, globally applicable and accepted standards for managing infrastructure and other aspects of cloud computing.

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Oracle Puts the Squeeze on SMBs with MySQL Price Hike

Oracle is once again showing that it is determined to squeeze profits out of its open source projects. The owners of the MySQL database recently announced a round of price hikes for customers of the widely used open source database product. With this round of price hikes, Oracle is really putting the hit on SMBs who were traditionally the bread and butter of the MySQL business. But there is an alternative. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, a new company called SkySQL made up of ex-MySQL folks has started offering support and services to MySQL customers. In general, SkySQL prices are anywhere from 30 to 60% cheaper than the advertised Oracle price.

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Bet on Microsoft's Cloudy Forecast

Redmond's massive investment in forward-thinking cloud infrastructure is spreading across the globe, indicating that Microsoft will be worth partnering with for years to come.

More at http://rcpmag.com/articles/2010/11/01/bet-on-microsofts-cloudy-forecast.aspx