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A Solid Foundation

Today on the mailing list we got a question that I think highlights one the big advantages of HiveDB. It builds on a well established technology, MySQL. Hence, there is a large pool of experience and tools at your disposal for handling all of the operational tasks like replication and monitoring that we […]

By britt | 01 Aug 08 | Posted in why hivedb? | Comments (0)

Updating to Java 1.6

As of changeset 4d9e2702f31b478ef070b966961fbae2407cadcb the HEAD release of HiveDB requires Java6 (1.6). We were trying to maintain compatibility with both Java5 and Java6 but were unable to do so due to changes in the DataSource interface.
We have changed our default connection pooling implementation from DBCP to C3P0. C3P0 has better failure […]

By britt | 22 Apr 08 | Posted in announcements, java | Comments (0)

Presentation Slides

Hello from the Mysql Conference and Expo. I just thought I’d post a preview of the presentation that we are going to give in 20 minutes.

Presentation Slides (online)
Presentation Slides (PDF)

By britt | 17 Apr 08 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)