Well, here we are … the first post to the InnoDB blog. Now there is a blog dedicated solely to InnoDB products and technology. The Innobase team will be posting here regularly on all manner of topics regarding the InnoDB storage engine. We plan to provide timely updates and important technical information about InnoDB-related products including the built-in InnoDB distributed by MySQL, the InnoDB Plugin and InnoDB Hot Backup. We invite you to visit regularly and post your comments.
We’ve borrowed the name “Transactions on” from the computer-science journal Transactions on Database Systems, published by the ACM society for computing professionals. Like that journal, this blog will cover a wide range of database topics, specifically as they relate to InnoDB.
Users of InnoDB know a transaction is an atomic all-or-nothing set of changes made to a collection of data. But according to Webster’s Dictionary, a transaction also is “a communicative action or activity involving two parties or things that reciprocally affect or influence each other”. So, a transaction is also an exchange of ideas.
Welcome to this place to transact in ideas about InnoDB!
March 14th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Hey Heikki et al, I’m glad to see that you’re finally blogging. I look forward to reading some interesting posts on here. Similarly, the 1.0.3 performance improvements look great; I can’t wait to try it out. Keep up the good work!
-Jonah
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February 18th, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Hi,
I didn’t see this information anywhere on the site so….
I’m very interested in porting one of the InnoDB tools to another unique platform, however, the GPL has me concerned. I don’t really know enough of the GPL but from what I understand anything I do with the source must be distributed.
Since the effort will be significant and very costly is an alternative a commercial license and what is the relative cost for that?
In other words, I would only port the product for sale and would not want anyone just re-selling the modified product. This would not be a trivial matter nor a minor add-on.
Thanks
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