MySQL AB intros Open Source database products

Developers of open source database, MySQL AB has announced recently that it has plans to release alpha and beta versions of several new Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) products this month.

This includes 'release candidate' of MySQL 5.1 -- a major new upgrade of the world’s most popular open source database server.

The announcement was made during the inaugural Japanese MySQL Users Conference.

"This wave of new technology represents the widest range of new products in any month in our company’s history -- innovative, new ways for users to extend their database applications," said Marten Mickos, MySQL AB’s CEO.

He added, "We're proud to work in tandem with our open source community to continuously release, evaluate and improve new MySQL features -- so that we can all benefit from the highest-quality software possible."

All of the following GPL-licensed products are scheduled to be available for download by the end of September.

MySQL 5.1 Community Server
The upcoming version of MySQL includes database partitioning capabilities to improve performance and simplify management of very large applications.

Falcon Database Engine
MySQL’s newest transactional database engine, being designed for large-memory, multi-threaded and multi-core CPU applications such as high-volume Web sites. Falcon is available in a special preview version of MySQL 6.0.

MySQL Proxy
A software program that sits between a client and MySQL server(s) that can monitor, analyze, or transform their communication. MySQL Proxy’s flexibility can address many common uses -- such as query analysis, filtering and modification, and much, much more.

MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1
A new high-performance MySQL ODBC driver that provides client access to a MySQL database using the industry-standard Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) API

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