Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about MySQL on Wednesday 22nd June

Ever wondered what would happen if you could rethink a decade worth of design changes? Drizzle is a redesign of the MySQL server targeted at web development and optimized for Cloud applications. Update yourself on the latest features, and use cases for Drizzle7 and what is in store for the near future.

In the talk we will delve into Drizzle's multi-master support features, replication, and why no group commit is required.

We'll also explore forecast for Drizzle, a database ? Brian provides an overview of the Drizzle project’s current state as well as what’s ahead.

MariaDB 5.3, 5.5 and 5.6 has and will have a lot of new and improved NO-SQL features that can help you solve problems that you normally can't solve easily with SQL.

The talk will cover the improvements that has been done with the HANDLER interface, the new DYNAMIC COLUMNS interface and how to use the DYNAMIC COLUMNS to create storage engines that can access not relational data.