Jonathan on December 18th, 2006

Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas to you! Just in time for the holidays, Solid has released the Generally Available version of solidDB for MySQL. Features of the GA release include:

Both pessimistic and optimistic tables can now be specified in create table
Performance enhancements
New configuration parameters
Documentation extended
Online backup supported and documented
New admin command checkpoint now supported and [...]

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Jonathan on December 2nd, 2006

I’ll be presenting a webinar about the solidDB for MySQL product on Tuesday, Dec 5. The webinar includes my talk, followed by some time at the end for Q&A. If you’re interested, you can find more info about the webinar and register for the event.

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Jonathan on December 1st, 2006

As some of you may already know, Solid is well on our way to launching our Generally Available release of solidDB for MySQL. As part of the launch process, we are running a Pilot Program that gives customers early access to our storage engine technology. Customers in the Pilot Program will get help from Solid [...]

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Jonathan on November 28th, 2006

We have released an update to Beta 5, which contains several bug fixes. This release is solidmysql-5.0.27-beta5-0040 (note 0040 instead of 0036 from the original Beta 5). You can get it from the usual place (http://dev.soliddb.com/download/). We also have new mirrors set up through sourceforge, which should improve the download speeds for people, especially for [...]

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Jonathan on November 11th, 2006

If you have been using solidDB for MySQL Beta 4 and decided to try out solidDB for MySQL Beta 5, you might have seen the following warning message when you try to start up mysqld:
SOLID Database Warning 1022: The database you are using has been
originally created with a different database block size setting
than your current [...]

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Jonathan on November 7th, 2006

We’ve released solidDB for MySQL Beta 5! We are continuing to make improvements, and as always, we are looking for feedback from the community. What existing features are you using, which area needs improvement, what is your number one most wanted feature?
Features of this beta release include:

The show soliddb mutex command is now supported
Pessimistic tables [...]

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Jonathan on October 17th, 2006

We have released a new set of bits. The solidDB for MySQL Beta 4 is now out. Like the previous release, it is primarily intended as a bug fix release. Pessimistic concurrency control is now in the product, although it still needs additional testing and is therefore not officially listed as supported in the documentation.

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Jonathan on September 13th, 2006

We have released solidDB for MySQL Beta 3. It is primarily a bug fixing release. We’ve also updated our documentation. If you like having an alternative to the existing standard MySQL storage engines, then I encourage you to take a look.

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