From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 25 19:59:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFE8F10657D0 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:59:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610BB8FC1D for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAPJwkv3030502; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:59:07 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20091125195906.GA58848@thought.org> References: <20091125185704.GA58709@thought.org> <4B0D8299.6080201@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0D8299.6080201@infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: mysql60-server?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:59:14 -0000 On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:16:41PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > There are 4 versions of MySQL currently available. In reverse order of age: > > mysql60 -- this is early beta quality (read: it may eat your data) and was > the > vehicle for MySQL to introduce various new table engines in an > attempt to ensure their independence from Oracle. > > However, Sun bought MySQL and Oracle is in the process of buying Sun. > Oracle > also previously bought Innobase (makers of InnoDB) and Sleepycat (writers of > Berkeley DB) so suddenly all of the current engine types are suddenly back > in > the picture: hence Thanks for the heads-up, MAtthew. I'm much too slow to get all the machinations re which corporation is diddling which corporation or other entity (like us). Did not know that mysql was actually owned by Sun. I'd ask if there are any free and open databases, but what db stuff I have is invested heavily with mysql. So v 60 is out. Do you know, off-chance, which versions are actively being hacked on? Nothing mission critical--yet--but I think v51 is the best bet for now. gary PS: to the powers-that-be: shouldn't these datapoints be make public front/center somewhere in ports or elsewhere that everyone can see? Save bandwidth... . This is going in my ~/.Notes file... . > > mysql54 -- an incremental upgrade on mysql51. Late beta quality, good for > experimenters and developers, but not yet something that should > be considered for mission critical applications > > Prior to that we have: > > mysql51 -- MySQL's current GA (generally available) release offering. It's > got a number of new features like stored procedures but depending > on > your workloads it may or may not be faster than... > > mysql50 -- The previous GA version, and still the most widely deployed > version at > the moment. It is still being actively maintained even if it is > pretty > much down-played on MySQL's website. This is a version that has > been > in all sorts of production use for years and pretty thoroughly > debugged, > hence a very safe choice. > > In summary: choose either of mysql50 or mysql51 according to preference or > your particular requirements. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard > Flat 3 > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate > Kent, CT11 9PW > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php