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Google releases code to enhance MySQL database product

Search engine giant Google continues to contribute back to the open source community as they have now released new programming code under the GPL license to enhance MySQL databases.

The company uses the MySQL database product for some of their internal applications and their developers enhance the code to make them better and more efficient.

Google engineer Mark Callaghan spoke on this contribution: “We think MySQL is a fantastic data storage solution, and as our projects push the requirements for the database in certain areas, we’ve made changes to enhance MySQL itself, mainly in the areas of high availability and manageability.”

MySQL is one of the most popular database solutions used on the web. It powers some of the most popular blogging and discussion forum platforms. As per statistics, it is the second most popular database behind Microsoft SQL Server.

Google added that their enhancements include support for “for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to a slave, quickly promoting a slave to a master during failover, and keeping InnoDB and replication state on a slave consistent during crash recovery.”

The company added that this code is primarily for the MySQL 4 edition and they would expect to support the version 5 soon.