[gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

kashani wrote:
> Jerry McBride wrote:
>> Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and
>> mysql-community?
>>
>> Thank you, in advance...
>>
>> P.S. before you beat me up too badly, I've googled this one to death
>> and not found anything that satisfies my curiousity.
>
> I've been trying to figure out that myself and would be interested in
> some enlightenment. However I do know that 5.0.30, which appears to be
> enterprise, has a number of high thread/concurrency Innodb fixes that
> many of us 5.0 beta test^H^Husers have been waiting for.

Is it only me or is the marketing fluff on the mysql homepage getting
worse? The MaxDB announcement without any meat, mysql-"cluster" (which
made me laugh when I figured out what they think constitutes a cluster),
and now the "huh, we do enterprise, too", which on the homepage seems
like a normal support scheme, but then why are there different tarballs?

Maybe this is an answer to EnterpriseDB/Postgres? But EnterpriseDB at
least is quite clear about what they add.

Regards and Happy Holidays,
Thomas
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Jerry McBride wrote:
> Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and mysql-community?
>
> Thank you, in advance...
>
> P.S. before you beat me up too badly, I've googled this one to death and not
> found anything that satisfies my curiousity.

The answer at the moment appears to be that there is no difference.
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/12/29/where-to-get-recent-mys...version

However it looks like in the future the code paths will start to diverge.

Here's a bit more about the upcoming split.
http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=64

Ramin

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Ryan Crisman wrote:
> MySQL - Paid (Enterprise Edition), Paid Support
> MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support

While the above is true it fails to answer the question, "As
DBA/sysadmin what is the actual difference between the two so I can pick
the right one for my workload." At least that's the question I
interpreted the first post as asking.

Right now the code bases are exactly the same. Going forward it's not
clear whether I'll be able to compile Mysql Enterprise myself with
support for the Sphinx storage engine which is very fast for full text
searches and a feature I desperately need. Also unclear is if the high
concurrency Innodb thread fixes are going to be implemented in Community
or Enterprise first. Enterprise appears to be the stable branch and will
have changes back ported from Community, but the docs are less than
clear at this point. In any case the issues are a bit more complicated
than where your support comes from at least at the high end. For your
general web-app either would be fine.

kashani
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