Hmm... understandable from a pure business perspective, but not the best outcome for this engine. It didn’t have the highest of profiles and buzz, but I know that users were trying it and liked some of its features. Orphaned open source code tends to not go anywhere, unless someone else picks it up and runs it as a project. See the original announcement with links/refs below: Update on solidDB for MySQL By: Dhiren Patel (dhiren) - 2008-03-03 12:12 Dear Community Members, As you may know, Solid was recently acquired by IBM to strengthen IBM?s Information Management Data Server offerings. As a result, I want to take a moment to give you an important update on the status of solidDB for MySQL. Those of you who know Solid?s history know that Solid has long been a leader in the area of in-memory database software. This in-memory technology, and not Solid?s open source offering, was the key driver behind IBM?s acquisition. As a result, I regret to inform you that, ef...
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3 strikesFrom: krisbuytaert.be
Post Date: 2008-03-04 14:04:26
I’d call this the 3rd strike and everybody knows what happens next
Marc Fleury has some good answers to the most clueless industry reporter around, starting with:
Spring is touting itself as a JBoss replacement. Smart PR, but false. Spring is a development framework comprising wrappers and dependency injection on top of Hibernate and Tomcat runtimes, both developed, and monetized by JBoss.
You can drop some balls , no one can keep track of what’s going on in Ope...
more Tradeoffs: Updates versus Range QueriesFrom: blogs.tokutek.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 11:14:00
Sorry for the delay, now on to range queries and lenient updates. Let’s call them queries and updates, for short. So far, I’ve shown that B-trees (and any of a number of other data structures) are very far from the “tight bound.” I’ll say a bound is a tight if it’s a lower bound and you can come up with data structure that matches it.
So how do we match the bandwidth bound for queries and updates? I already mentioned in passing how to do this,...
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