MySQL to Get Injection of Google Code

inkslinger77 writes to mention that MySQL has published their software roadmap out through 2009 and it includes an injection of code from Google. Google remains relatively secretive about how their systems work but they are one of the largest users of MySQL. Earlier this year Google signed a Contributor License Agreement which provides a framework for them to contribute code to MySQL. "The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs, which include better database replication, and tools to monitor a high volume of database instances, Axmark said in an interview at MySQL's user conference in Paris. MySQL will include some of those capabilities in future versions of its database, probably in point upgrades to MySQL 6.0, which is scheduled for general availability in late 2008, Axmark said."

Injection?

[Tetsujin]

Somehow when I put "SQL" and "injection" together, I don't like the result...

Well, except for when it involves Little Bobby Tables [xkcd.com]...

Re:MySQL?

[Frosty Piss]

Why did Google choose such a crappy database?

Clearly they know something you don't.

Google needs to add an SQL function

[LiquidCoooled]

They need to add a GOOGLE function to allow queries to be searched nicer.

SELECT * FROM articles WHERE GOOGLE('boobies');

something similar might be available but it is a PITA to list the fields to search and specify the operators etc

Re:Google needs to add an SQL function

[j. andrew rogers]

"They need to add a GOOGLE function to allow queries to be searched nicer.

SELECT * FROM articles WHERE GOOGLE('boobies');"

I don't know about MySQL, but you can pretty trivially write extensions to PostgreSQL that do exactly this kind of thing. In fact, I've written a number of such extensions to PostgreSQL that make Google resources seem like local resources in a PostgreSQL database. (This kind of deep and easy customizability is one of the things I find to be a killer feature of PostgreSQL relative to many/most other databases.)