MySQL Version 4.0 Dubbed "Production"

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MySQL Version 4.0 Dubbed “Production”
25 Mar 2003

MySQL AB Confirms Version 4.0.12 Ready for all Application Areas

SEATTLE, Wash. – (March 25, 2003) – MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular Open Source database, today announced that the MySQL™ database version 4.0 has been labeled “production,” indicating that it is ready for any MySQL deployment. To reach production status, MySQL software must pass a series of rigorous tests with no fatal bugs and then undergo “battle-testing” in live environments for a minimum of three months. Starting with the newest release, 4.0.12, MySQL version 4.0 is now the standard code base for all MySQL database downloads.

Development releases of MySQL version 4.0 have been available since October, 2001. In early 2002, an alpha development release of MySQL version 4.0 tested as having the overall best performance and scalability, along with Oracle9i, in a benchmark comparison to databases from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase, performed by Ziff Davis Media Inc. (For the full review go to http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=708&a=23115,00.asp). Since then, MySQL version 4.0 has been used and tested extensively at many large organizations to ensure the highest level of quality and reliability.

“Even though proven development releases of 4.0 have been out for well over a year, we know that many MySQL users have been waiting for it to go production before upgrading. Now that it’s been thoroughly tested by thousands of users, with no major bugs having been found in many months, we are confident that version 4.0 can be used reliably in any MySQL implementation – whether it’s in the enterprise, embedded in third-party software or in a large Web application,” said Michael “Monty” Widenius, MySQL AB CTO and co-founder.

MySQL Version 4.0 Enhances Speed, Adds Key Features
The main new features of MySQL version 4.0 are geared toward enhancing the MySQL database software as the solution for mission-critical, heavy-load database systems and to optimize performance as an embedded database. MySQL version 4.0 includes:

A query cache, offering increased performance for many applications with repetitive queries
Full-text indexing, searching on packed indexes, bulk inserts and other new optimizations for faster query execution
An embedded MySQL server library, making the MySQL database faster and easier as an embedded database in other applications
The transactional engine, InnoDB, in the standard 4.0 binaries, adding transactions, row-level locking, and foreign key integrity
Features to simplify migration from other databases to MySQL, such as the “Truncate Table,” “Union” and “Cast” SQL syntax additions
More detailed information about new features in MySQL version 4.0 can be found at the MySQL AB Web site at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Nutshell_4.0_features.html.

"MySQL version 4.0 provides a rich array of new features, including the impressive new query cache feature and the InnoDB transactional engine," said Anthony Boyd, manager of Web Technology at Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., a major flash memory provider based in Sunnyvale, California. "In addition to several stand-out and ease-of-use improvements, we have found the upgrade to MySQL version 4.0 from version 3.23 to be an easy one."

Foundation for Future Versions
MySQL version 4.0 provides the foundation for significant new features that will be available in upcoming MySQL versions, such as subqueries, which are in MySQL version 4.1, as well as stored procedures and foreign key integrity rules for the MyISAM storage engine, which are targeted for MySQL version 5.0.

MySQL AB developers will provide detailed overviews and demonstrations of key current and upcoming MySQL database features, such as stored procedures and subqueries, at the first annual MySQL Users Conference, April 10-12 in San Jose, California. More information about the MySQL Users Conference 2003 can be found at http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/.

Availability
MySQL 4.0.12 is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from the MySQL AB download pages at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/.

The source code for the latest development version of MySQL (version 4.1) is now available from MySQL AB at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql-4.1.html. Binaries for MySQL version 4.1 will be available soon.

MySQL AB will continue to update the previous production release, version 3.23, with critical bugs and security fixes until further notice. To encourage and ease upgrade to MySQL version 4.0, the company will provide an outline for its 3.23 phase-out plans.

About MySQL
MySQL AB develops, markets and supports the MySQL database server, the world's most popular Open Source database. With an estimated 4 million installations and averaging over 27,000 downloads per day, MySQL is quickly becoming the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Major corporations such as Yahoo!, Lucent Technologies, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Motorola, NASA, Silicon Graphics, HP, Xerox and Cisco rely on the ultra-fast, highly-reliable MySQL database. MySQL is available under the Free Software/Open Source GNU General Public License (GPL) or a non-GPL commercial license. For more information about MySQL, please go to www.mysql.com.

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