Solid Information Technology releases high-performance MySQL storage engine

[Mercury]

December 20, 2006 (LinuxWorld) -- Solid Information Technology Corp. Tuesday released solidDB for MySQL, a database consisting of the MySQL relational database management system backed by the company's solidDB Storage Engine. Compared with the commonly used InnoDB, Solid posted more than twice the transactions per second in the TM1 Benchmark for a database with 1 million rows.

The TM1 Benchmark, developed by Toni Strandell at the University of Helsinki, simulates the database transactions of a mobile phone network's home location register (HLR) database. Solid also claims increased scalability in transactions per second with an increasing number of CPUs compared with InnoDB. Oracle Corp. acquired Innobase Oy in October 2005.

Solid will provide support for solidDB for MySQL, with backup from MySQL AB for that company's portions of the combined product. The product will be licensed under the same dual-license model as MySQL, and users will be able to choose the GNU General Public License or a proprietary license. The product is available on Linux and Microsoft Windows today, with other MySQL-supported systems planned for the future.


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