Comments on: More on Solid and MySQL? http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/22/more-on-solid-and-mysql/ Choices in data management and analysis Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:00:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Solid/MySQL fit http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/22/more-on-solid-and-mysql/#comment-935 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Solid/MySQL fit Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:26:39 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=68#comment-935 [...] I felt like writing a lot about the great potential fit between MySQL and Solid over the weekend, but Solid didn’t want me to do so. Now, however, I’m not in the mood, so I’ll just say that in OLTP, Solid’s technology is strong where MySQL’s is weak, and vice-versa. E.g., Solid is so proud of its zero-administration capabilities that, without MySQL, it doesn’t have much in the way of admin tools at all. Conversely, I think that many of those websites that crash all the time with MySQL errors would crash less with the Solid engine underneath. (Solid happens to be proud of its BLOB-handling capability, efficiency-wise.) [...] [...] I felt like writing a lot about the great potential fit between MySQL and Solid over the weekend, but Solid didn’t want me to do so. Now, however, I’m not in the mood, so I’ll just say that in OLTP, Solid’s technology is strong where MySQL’s is weak, and vice-versa. E.g., Solid is so proud of its zero-administration capabilities that, without MySQL, it doesn’t have much in the way of admin tools at all. Conversely, I think that many of those websites that crash all the time with MySQL errors would crash less with the Solid engine underneath. (Solid happens to be proud of its BLOB-handling capability, efficiency-wise.) [...]

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/22/more-on-solid-and-mysql/#comment-891 Curt Monash Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:49:25 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=68#comment-891 I've been an analyst for over 25 years, and I've NEVER had an embargo so repeatedly emphasized to me. And no effort was made to separate out what is and isn't embargoed. It's a crying shame, since I suspect I'm literally the only analyst who understands the Solid product line or its potential in open source as well as I do. (Because of the research I've done for the forthcoming white paper, in no small part.) And there's a real case to be made that Solid's technology is lighter-weight than Ingres or PostgreSQL, and more industrial-strength than any other alternative. But at this point I don't expect that line of reasoning to get any significant attention or buzz. What really burns me up is that I think Solid's marketers are smart people, who know their craft. But nobody bats 1.000, and they blew this one, badly. I’ve been an analyst for over 25 years, and I’ve NEVER had an embargo so repeatedly emphasized to me. And no effort was made to separate out what is and isn’t embargoed.

It’s a crying shame, since I suspect I’m literally the only analyst who understands the Solid product line or its potential in open source as well as I do. (Because of the research I’ve done for the forthcoming white paper, in no small part.) And there’s a real case to be made that Solid’s technology is lighter-weight than Ingres or PostgreSQL, and more industrial-strength than any other alternative.

But at this point I don’t expect that line of reasoning to get any significant attention or buzz.

What really burns me up is that I think Solid’s marketers are smart people, who know their craft. But nobody bats 1.000, and they blew this one, badly.

]]> By: Mike Kruckenberg http://www.dbms2.com/2006/04/22/more-on-solid-and-mysql/#comment-877 Mike Kruckenberg Sun, 23 Apr 2006 09:08:57 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=68#comment-877 Yikes. I wondered about that when writing about it, but I figured that if there's a press release, and ZDNet picked it up, that it was meant to be out there. Yikes. I wondered about that when writing about it, but I figured that if there’s a press release, and ZDNet picked it up, that it was meant to be out there.

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