Is MySQL Ready For Prime Time?

Is MySQL Ready For Prime Time? Sean Hull , Senior Consultant - Heavyweight Internet Group

When & Where?
Part of Oracle fold
New Strategic Question
Simplicity of Configuration
Features & Horsepower
Licensing
Strengths of each
Strengths by type of App

Similar Strengths
Datatypes
Stored Procs, Triggers & Funcs
ACID Compliance & MVCC
Hot, Cold, Secure Bkup, dumps
HA & Failsafe
Web-based Mgmt
Full Text, Radius, Indexes & Search
Partitions
Distributed Queries*

Oracle Strengths
Dataguard & Standby db
SQL Opt, Subq. & CBO
Concurrency, Parallelism
Clustering with RAC
VPD - Column Level Security
Flashback Query, Table, Trans.
Cursors

Oracle Strengths
Materialized Views
Auditing & Security
Snapshots
Function-based Indexes
Online Alter etc.
Instrumentation & OWI

MySQL Strengths
Low Overhead Sessions
Trivial RPM or Yum Pkg Install
Command Line Tool
Simpler Instrumentation
Query, locks, audit counts
Database metrics
Uptime, connections, FTS etc

Strengths by App Type
Web-facing db - MySQL
Custom Ent Apps - MySQL
Intranets & Corp Apps - MySQL
Business Suites - Oracle
Datawarehouse - Oracle
SAP - oops!

Cost Comparisons
MySQL Comm - $0
Support - $600 - $5000
Oracle XE - $0
Oracle S1 - $5800/proc
Support - $3850
Oracle SE - $17,500/proc
Support - $3850
Oracle EE - $47,500/proc
Support - $10,450

Cost Comparisons
Commodity hw, Linux OS
Consulting - $1000 - $3000/day
MySQL Professional Services
Oracle Professional Services

Cost - Totals
Consulting $1000 x 100 days
2 proc box hosting - $20,000
CentOS - no cost distro of RH
MySQL - $125,000
Oracle XE - $120,000
Oracle S1 - $132,876
Oracle SE - $158,850
Oracle EE - $235,900

Cost - Conclusions
Consulting Cost - bulk of total
Oracle SE & EE License costs
Team exp. - Oracle vs MySQL
Sources
oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf
shop.mysql.com/enterprise

Case Study 1
NBC/iVillage, Diet & Nutr Site
Drupal CMS + LAMP
2x Xeon 5450 3Ghz qcore procs
16Gb Mem, 6x sas drives - RAID10
2-2.5mil page views/month
Avg 150q/sec peak: 3000q/sec

Case Study 2
BuzzD.com - Nightlife & Ent.
Amazon EC2
7.5G Mem, 4x Comp Units
Mirror EBS Vols
750-850k page views/month
50q/sec peak: 1500q/sec

Case Study 3
GG Digital - CelebrityTweet.com
Amazon EC2, EBS
7.5G Ram, 4x EC2 Comp Units
Db & webserver share box
250k page views/month
15 q/sec, 300 q/sec peak

Conclusions
MySQL - volkswagen bug
Web-facing & intranets
Consider company culture
Roll-your-own solutions
Oracle - cadillac or ferrari
larger & planned projs
Feature rich
Mature platform

Further Reading
Paul Berry - CTO Huff Post
www.leadit.us/hands-on-tech/HuffingtonPost-CTO-on-Enterprise-MySQL-Heavy-Traffic-Management-and-Ultra-Availability
Domas Mituzas - Facebook
Huffington Post
MySQL Case Studies
www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/
MySQL Success Stories
www.mysql.com/news-and-events/success-stories

Further Reading
ProMySQL: Kruckenberg& Pipes
High Perf MySQL: Lentz, Zaitsev, Tkachenko, Sawodny, Balling, Schwartz
mysqlperformanceblog.com
planetmysql.com

About Us
Sean Hull
[email_address]
Corp: www.iheavy.com
Blog: oracleopensource.com
www.linkedin.com/in/hullsean

Is MySQL Ready For Prime Time?

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