Introduction to MySQL

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Introduction to MySQL
Giuseppe Maxia
MySQL Community Team Lead at Oracle

Monday, 19 April 2010

about me -Giuseppe Maxia
 a.k.a. The Data Charmer
 MySQL Community Team Lead
 Long time hacking with MySQL features
 Formerly, database consultant, designer, coder.
 A passion for QA
 An even greater passion for open source
 ... and community
 Passionate blogger
 http://datacharmer.blogspot.com


If I wanted to make you invest in MySQL

 If you were a
VC
 Using Guy
Kawasaki's
rules


Introducing MySQL

10/20/30
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1. Why MySQL? (the problem)
• Startup
• Small business
• Small budget
• Need a open system

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2. MySQL: What is it? (the solution)
• A lightweight database server
• Fast
• Stable
• Easy to install
• Easy to use

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3. Business model
• Let everyone use it
• When their business grow, sell them services and
additional software

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4. MySQL Technology
• Multiple storage engines
• Full ACID compliant (with InnoDB)
• Stored routines, views, triggers
• Built-in replication
• Built-in partitioning
• Event scheduler
• Plugin architecture
• MySQL Cluster

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5. Marketing and sales
• Open the doors
• Optional registration on downloads
• Registration on some additional contents
• Events
• Offers and campaigns
• MySQL Enterprise tools
• Excellent support

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6. Competition
• Small
> PostgreSQL
> SQLite
> MySQL forks
> NoSQL

• Big
> Microsoft
> IBM
> Oracle?

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7. Team
• Developers in house
• Support closely tied to engineering
• Carefully hired talents

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8. Projection and milestones
• World domination achieved for ubiquity
> Via other open source projects (e.g. Linux, PHP)
• World domination in business on the way
> Through Oracle stewardship

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9. Status and timeline
• MySQL 5.1 current G.A.
• MySQL 5.5 in the making
> Performance and scalability enhancements
> Semi-synch replication
> Partitioning enhancements
> Better usability

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10. Summary and call to action
• MySQL is a phenomenon (You'll see soon)
• Go get it!
> And give me $1 billion, pretty please!
• http://dev.mysql.com

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What? No cash?

Then I should probably
introduce a new element

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Introducing MySQL

Passion
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MySQL
• My - See - Quel
• My - Ess - Kyu - Ell

• we make databases

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What is MySQL?
• a noun?
• a verb?
• an abstract concept?
• It's a PHENOMENON !
• Let's ask Google.

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• “mysql” = 210,000,000

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The business competition

• “mysql” = 210,000,000
• “postgresql” = 19,700,000
• “db2” = 19,800,000
• “sql server” = 75,900,000
• “oracle” = 102,000,000

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The show business competition

• “mysql” =
210,000,000
• “madonna” =
98,000,000

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The political competition

• “mysql” =
210,000,000
• “berlusconi”
= 28,300,000

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• “mysql” =
210,000,000
• “sarkozy” =
31,100,000

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(november 2008)

• “mysql” =
210,000,000
• “obama” =
201,000,000

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a phenomenon!

MySQL is twice as popular as
Madonna and has almost the
same chance as Obama for US
President.

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OK.
But really, what is it?
• a piece of database software
• the backbone of the web economy
• a community of millions of users
• the employer that gives me a pay check
• All of the above

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or, more practically ...
• Let me give you an example
• what about Facebook?

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facebook

Facebook. Powered by MySQL


MySQL powers the Web
according to Alexa - Apr. 18, 2010
1 Google 11 Twitter
2 Facebook 12 Yahoo.co.jp
3 Youtube 13 Google.co.in
4 Yahoo! 14 Google.de
5 Live 15 Sina.com.cn
6 Wikipedia 16 taobao.com
7 Blogger 17 wordpress
8 Baidu 18 myspace
9 MSN 19 google.co.hk
10 qq.com 20 google.co.uk
...and many more: Flickr, Second Life, Craigslist, Slashdot, LiveJournal,
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Digg, Del.icio.us, Pricegrabber.com, Weather.com etc.

most popular

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the LAMP stack
Linux
L
Apache
A
MySQL
M
Perl/PHP/Python
P
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From ubiquity to business

Enterprise
customers

MySQL User Base

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MySQL Enterprise
• Full control
on your
database

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MySQL Query Analyzer
• Part of MySQL Enterprise
• finds and solves
performance problems on
the spot
• find out more:
www.mysql.com

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people
• freedom to
work
anywhere

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people

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Community
MySQL
Forge
Projects
Tools
Code
Worklogs
Wiki
http://forge.mysql.com 37


Downloads
Community Articles
Blogs
Bug reports
Forums
Events
University

http://dev.mysql.com 38


Community

http://planet.mysql.com 39


friends - Operating Systems
• Linux
• Solaris
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• *BSD
• *NIX

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friends - Connectors

C library C/C++
MySQL server
Perl PHP

Java library Python
.NET library
ODBC
Java

VB

C#
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Engines

engine Notes

MyISAM fast, non-transactional, full-text

InnoDB transactions, FK, concurrent
HEAP In memory

MERGE merges many MyISAM tables

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More Engines

engine notes

Federated remote tables
relay engine
Blackhole
no storage

Archive compressed storage

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Federated

MySQL server MySQL server
table t1f table t1
federated MyISAM

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Black hole

record
record
record binary log
record
triggers

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Archive

record
record
record
record

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Plugin

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MySQL Proxy

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MySQL Core Values
• Stability
• Performance
• Ease of use

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Stability
• tested by millions
• built to last

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Performance
• designed to be
fast
• The web wants
instant
responses
• MySQL provides
them

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Ease of use
• the "15 minutes rule"
> you should be up and running
with MySQL within 15 minutes

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Scalability

slave
MySQL server
R
MySQL server
master
R/W

slave
MySQL server R
REPLICATION
For read intensive high concurrency
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Scalability

R/W
data node MySQL server
MySQL server
R/W data node
data node
data node

R/W
MySQL server
MySQL Cluster
For write intensive high concurrency and HA
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Performance : partitioning
1-99

100-199 select *
from
200-299 table_name
where colx =
300-399 120

400-499 Boosting performance with MySQL partitions
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1:00 PM
500-599 ROOM: SURF C 55


Performance: InnoDB 1.0
• Faster
• More scalable
• Available as plugin in MySQL 5.1
• Built-in in MySQL 5.5

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host2 MySQL server
without
SPIDER
From community:
the Spider engine host3 MySQL server
without
SPIDER

table employees host4 MySQL server
partition 1 year 1997 host2 without
SPIDER
partition 2 year 1998 host3
partition 3 year 1999 host4 host5 MySQL server
without
partition 4 year 2000 host5 SPIDER
partition 5 year 2001 host6
partition 6 year 2002 host7 host6 MySQL server
without
SPIDER
host1 MySQL server
Sharding
for the masses. MySQL for large projects
with SPIDER
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 host7 MySQL server
without
11:45AM SPIDER
ROOM: SURF B 57


Usability: MySQL Workbench

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Get involved
• http://dev.mysql.com
• Downloads
• Documentation
• Articles
• Blogs
• Forums
• Mailing lists
• Bugs database
• And more! 62


More sessions on MySQL
Sharding for the masses. MySQL for large projects
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
11:45AM
ROOM: SURF B

Boosting performance with MySQL partitions
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1:00 PM
ROOM: SURF C
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The preceding is intended to outline our
general product direction. It is intended for
information purposes only, and may not be
incorporated into any contract. It is not a
commitment to deliver any material, code, or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in
making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of
Oracle.
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THANKS!

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