“Hey, you got Google in MySQL…”
Google is one of the biggest users of MySQL and they have added many enhancements to get MySQL to meet their needs, including better database replication and tools to monitor a high volume of database instances.
Now, thanks to an agreement between Google and MySQL, some of those features are going to be put back into MySQL so that everyone can take advantage of them. These new features should start showing up around MySQL 6.1 in 2009 and are just part of the improvements on the roadmap to MySQL 7.0 recently laid out by the MySQL group.
Some of the other improvements scheduled on the MySQL roadmap are better enterprise-level security features, a new storage engine (Falcon), table and index partioning, and row-based replication. Most web developers won’t notice a difference, but power-users and database admins will welcome these high-level additions that put MySQL on par with Oracle and IBM solutions.
From ComputerWorld
