MySQL Users Conference

It's great seeing all the excitement and enthusiasm at the MySQL conference. From my perspective some of the key highlights from the first two days include:
Monday - Memcache - A big hit with a lot of interest.
Tuesday: Top Highlights
Mårten and Jonathan's keynotes.
New features in InnoDB - Ken Jacobs showed a number of new features in the new alpha release of InnoDB that really stood out. It's a plug in that needs to be installed in a 5.1.23 or greater release of MySQL. Rebuilding of indexes and performance enhancements definitely will make it worthwhile to look at these features in more detail.

• Fast index creation without copying data.
• Data compression.
• New INFORMATION_SCHMEMA objects for compression and locking.
• New row format to support long BLOB, TEXT and VARCHAR columns out of line.
• TRUNCATE TABLE recreates the .ibd file.
• More dynamic features with innodb_file_per_table.
• INNODB strict mode.
  

There were also some excellent presentations on replication and performance. The technical birds of a feather presentations were also very cool.

The competition between InnoDB, Falcon and Maria has definitely stepped up. This competition will be a big win for the user community.