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…is exactly what I’m currently trying to do. Thus, I’m out of Mediaframe, and got involved in a fascinating and very cool project. Under the lead of Dr Marek Długosz me and 2 of my friends will be tackling the topic of “MySQL Data Storage Engine Comprehension – with focus on Automatics use cases”. It’s really interesting since MySQL is so popular, yet very little people know about the dozens of 3rd party storage engines – some of them are really interesting, just to name a few:

• TokuDB http://tokutek.com/
• InfiniDB http://www.infinidb.org
• percona http://www.percona.com/docs/wiki/Percona-XtraDB:start
• MariaDB http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/Maria (Maria, PBXT, FederatedX)
• IBMDB2I http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-db2.html
• …ane some more…?
  

A simple comprehension will be the first thing we’ll do for this project… Later on we’ll do some simulated “real life” tests using JMeter. It’s possible that we’ll write some app based on this database later on – but that’s somehow far off at the moment. That said, I’m really happy to be involved in an interesting and open (it’s all open source & free software after all) topic.

Tomorrow I’m going to the university to setup our very own (awesome ;-)) HP ProLiant DL380 server. It has 6 hard drives, thus it should be very interesting to run HEAVY database LOAD tests – can’t wait. We’ll install CentOS 5.4 and think about it’s future then…