Percona Offers InnoDB Replacement

Open source the way it ought to be. Today, Percona announced a replacement for InnoDB that improves performance and fixes bugs. The new engine is called XtraDB.

According to Vadim at Percona:

It's 100% backwards-compatible with standard InnoDB, so you can use it as a drop-in replacement in your current environment. It is designed to scale better on modern hardware, and includes a variety of other features useful in high performance environments.

The release is pure GPL (v2) and commercial support is available from Percona. If percona keeps this up, they just might become the new MySQL.

The source is available from Launchpad and from Percona. Binaries are also available and OurDelta will start using XtraDB in future builds. Percona expects a 6 month development cycle. I don't see on here how they plan to incorporate contributions but that may just need a little time to figure out. They do say that they have already incorporated most patches that are available and that make sense for their customer base..

This announcement excites me much more than Drizzle ever did.

LewisC

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Starting Survey results - Survery Countries

Well, I have started formatting the results from the survey. This will take a little while as the survey software doesn't make it easy to download and clean it up (without paying for a subscription). As soon as the data is cleaned up I will post the entire data set and a link for everyone to download.

However, while I work on the data, I will provide some summary results. Here is a list of countries who had respondents. If a country is not listed, it had 0 responses/

Country	Percentage	# Respondents
Argentina	0.31%	1
Australia	3.44%	11
Belgium	1.25%	4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.31%	1
Brazil	5.63%	18
Bulgaria	1.25%	4
Canada	4.69%	15
Colombia	0.63%	2
Croatia	0.31%	1
Czech Republic	0.94%	3
Dominican Republic	0.31%	1
Ecuador	0.31%	1
Estonia	0.31%	1
Finland	0.31%	1
France	4.38%	14
Germany	2.50%	8
Greece	0.63%	2
Guatemala	0.31%	1
Hong Kong	0.31%	1
Hungary	0.31%	1
India	3.13%	10
Indonesia	0.31%	1
Israel	0.31%	1
Italy	1.88%	6
Latvia	0.63%	2
Malaysia	0.31%	1
Mali	0.31%	1
Mexico	3.75%	12
Netherlands	1.88%	6
Norway	0.31%	1
Paraguay	0.31%	1
Peru	0.63%	2
Philippines	0.63%	2
Poland	1.88%	6
Portugal	0.31%	1
Russian Federation	1.56%	5
Serbia	0.63%	2
Singapore	0.31%	1
Slovenia	0.94%	3
South Africa	0.94%	3
Spain	2.81%	9
Sweden	0.94%	3
Switzerland	1.25%	4
Thailand	0.31%	1
Turkey	1.25%	4
Ukraine	0.31%	1
United Kingdom	6.88%	22
United States	35.00%	112
Uruguay	0.31%	1
Other	1.56%	5

Check out a summary of Primary Databases and a few questions on open source software usage.

LewisC

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