Today Drizzle enters BETA. Drizzle is an evolution of MySQL that’s been simplified, streamlined, and modernized. This long awaited database started from an idea in 2005 to fork MySQL, keep the good parts, and rip out or replace all the stuff that’s not good for web applications. This idea has been endorsed by large corporate [...]

It occurred to me today while watching a discussion about MySQL vs. MongoDB that there needs to be more documentation about the performance of the Dev Null database, and its open source derivatives. MongoDB fanboys should be aware that it offers the following features: 100% non-blocking Unlimited horizontal scalability Unlimited vertical scalability Supports Sharding Supports [...]

Today it’s the one month anniversary of Cassandra graduating to a top level Apache project. It now has a new and improved project URL: http://cassandra.apache.org Recently you may have noticed my writing about Drizzle, but that’s not the only database system I love. I’m also a fan of Cassandra, and I’m proud to work with [...]