Quick MySQL 5.7.5 thoughts

It was great to see the recent announcement of MySQL 5.7.5 over at the MySQL Server Team blog. I’m looking forward to throwing this release at some of the POWER8 systems we have for a couple of really good reasons: 1) Does it work better than previous MySQL 5.7 releases “out of the box” on POWER? 2) What do the scalability improvements in 5.7.5 mean for peak QPS on POWER (and can I set a new record?).

Looking through the list of changes, I’m (casually not) surprised as to the number of features and the amount of work that echoes what we were working on in Drizzle a few years ago.

A closer look at the source for 5.7.5 may also prove enlightening, I wonder how the MySQL team is coping with a lot of the code rot legacy and the absolutely atrocious internal APIs they inherited…

7 thoughts on “Quick MySQL 5.7.5 thoughts

  1. I gotta admit, it took me a while to even figure out how to get 5.7.5 to compile! They use a Boost include now, but the way it is set up in the build system is very odd.

    It was interesting to see things we did 4 years ago finally make it to MySQL too :)

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