I'm a novice in this area, so looking past the somewhat sensationalist headline (or, perhaps, I'm missing the wit? "Now with 70x more performance!")...
Can someone who knows this stuff give a bit of an overview on the significance of this release?
I read the NoSQL stuff as Oracle/MySQL trying to compete (at least in terms of marketing-speak) with the wave of competition that's arrived in the DB market. Is there any meat to it?
The 70x speed boost isn't a trivial change - it's for JOIN performance.
Cluster has "sql nodes" (that you query against) and "data nodes" that house the actual data, which "sql nodes" talk to to actually process the query.
Cluster can now tell the data nodes to only return necessary subsets of data back to the "sql nodes" when doing a JOIN, instead of pulling down more information (and filtering on the sql node side) when answering complex JOIN queries.
NDB originally only had a NoSQL interface called NDB API. NDB API is a bit complex and when MySQL acquired them, they added the SQL layer on top of it to make it easier for developers to use it.
This release adds an additional memcache api layer which sits on top of NDB API, so that you can more easily program against it.
Can someone who knows this stuff give a bit of an overview on the significance of this release?
I read the NoSQL stuff as Oracle/MySQL trying to compete (at least in terms of marketing-speak) with the wave of competition that's arrived in the DB market. Is there any meat to it?