WebScaleSQL

WebScaleSQL
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Developer(s) Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Alibaba Group
Repository github.com/webscalesql/webscalesql-5.6
Development status Active
Written in C, C++, Perl and Bash
Operating system Linux
Platform x86-64
Available in English
Type RDBMS
License GNU GPL version 2
Website webscalesql.org

WebScaleSQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) created as a software branch of the production-ready community releases of MySQL. By joining efforts of a few companies and incorporating various changes and new features into MySQL, WebScaleSQL aims toward fulfilling various needs arising from the deployment of MySQL in large-scale environments, which involve large amounts of data and numerous database servers.[1][2]

The source code of WebScaleSQL is hosted on GitHub and licensed under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.[3][4]

Overview

Running MySQL on numerous servers with large amounts of data, at the scale of terabytes and petabytes of data, creates a set of difficulties that in many cases arise the need for implementing specific customized MySQL features, or the need for introducing functional changes to MySQL. More than a few companies have faced the same (or very similar) set of difficulties in their production environments, which used to result in the availability of multiple solutions for similar challenges.[3][5][6]

WebScaleSQL was announced on March 27, 2014 as a joint effort of Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter (with Alibaba Group joining in January 2015[7]), aiming to provide a centralized development structure for extending MySQL with new features specific to its large-scale deployments, such as building large replicated databases running on server farms. As a result, WebScaleSQL opens a path toward deduplicating the efforts each founding company had been putting into maintaining its own branch of MySQL, and toward bringing together more developers.[1][4][8]

WebScaleSQL is created as a branch of the MySQL's latest production-ready community release, which is version 5.6 as of March 2013. As the project aims to tightly follow new MySQL community releases, a branching path has been selected instead of becoming a software fork of MySQL. The selection of MySQL production-ready community releases for the WebScaleSQL's upstream, instead of selecting some of the available MySQL forks such as MariaDB[9] or Percona Server,[10] was the result of a consensus between the four founding companies, which concluded that the features already existing in MySQL 5.6 are suitable for large-scale deployments, while additional features of the same kind are planned for MySQL 5.7.[1][3][4]

Features

The initial changes and feature additions that WebScaleSQL introduced to the MySQL 5.6 codebase came from the engineers employed by the four founding companies; however, the project is open to peer-reviewed community contributions.[11] As of September 15, 2014, available new features and changes include the following:[4][8][12][13][14]

As of March 28, 2014, planned new features and changes include the following:[1][8]

Availability

WebScaleSQL is distributed in a source-code-only form, with no official binaries available. As of March 27, 2014, compiling the source code and running WebScaleSQL is supported only on x86-64 Linux hosts, requiring at the same time a toolchain that supports C99 and C++11 language standards.[4]

The source code is hosted on GitHub and available under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL v2).[3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (March 28, 2013). "WebScaleSQL: MySQL for Facebook-sized databases". ZDNet. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Klint Finley (March 27, 2013). "Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases". Wired. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Jack Clark (March 27, 2013). "Forkin' 'L! Facebook, Google and friends create WebScaleSQL from MySQL 5.6". The Register. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Frequently Asked Questions". webscalesql.org. March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Patches for MySQL 5 – MySQL tools released by Google". code.google.com. June 24, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  6. ↑ "facebook/mysql-5.1". github.com. June 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Please welcome Alibaba to WebScaleSQL!". webscalesql.org. January 15, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  8. 1 2 3 Doug Henschen (March 27, 2014). "Facebook Debuts Web-Scale Variant of MySQL". informationweek.com. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  9. ↑ Rasmus Johansson (March 29, 2014). "MariaDB and WebScaleSQL". mariadb.org. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  10. ↑ Laurynas Biveinis (May 22, 2014). "A technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server". percona.com. Retrieved August 15, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Is Your Change Appropriate?". webscalesql.org. March 27, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  12. ↑ Michael Larabel (March 28, 2014). "Facebook & Others Announce WebScaleSQL". Phoronix. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
  13. ↑ Steaphan Greene (March 27, 2014). "WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream". code.facebook.com. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  14. ↑ Doug Henschen (September 15, 2014). "Facebook Announces WebScaleSQL Upgrade For MySQL". informationweek.com. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  15. ↑ "MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual, Section 17.1.3 Replication with Global Transaction Identifiers". dev.mysql.com. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Percona Server 5.6: super_read_only option". percona.com. Retrieved August 16, 2015.

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