Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny

Hi, this article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver – in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such [...]

Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12 Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Fedora 12 This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Fedora 12 system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, [...]

MySQL Community Server 5.1.47 and 5.0.91 released

MySQL Community Server versions 5.1.47 and 5.0.91 have been released. Active maintenance of the 5.0 series has ended so this update only contains fixes for security bugs. MySQL 5.1.47 is recommended for use on production systems. Read more at LWN.net

Former MySQL CEO: More successful open source startups needed

Open source is no longer considered the wild underdog, but it will need more new companies making money off the trend, the one-time CEO of MySQL stressed Wednesday at the EclipseCon 2010 conference. Panelists from the software industry pondered the future of open source during a late-afternoon session at the Santa Clara, California, conference. Panelist [...]

Digg says yes to NoSQL, bye to MySQL

After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licencied under Apache [...]

Open Source NoSQL Databases Ramp Up

For most of the Web era, Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) based on SQL have dominated the database landscape. But over the course of the last year, a new approach has begun to take hold known as NoSQL, offering an alternative to the traditional RDBMS. This week at the NoSQL Live conference in Boston, multiple [...]

Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0

New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Mandriva 2010.0
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can
install Lighttpd on a Mandriva 2010.0 server with PHP5 support (through
FastCGI) and MySQL support.
Link to the original site

Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL

When it comes to open source databases, MySQL gets the lion’s share of attention. MySQL is an easy-to-use database, and a lot of open source Web applications are geared towards it. The other primary open source database is PostgreSQL which, while widely known, doesn’t have the same mindshare that MySQL has obtained. This is unfortunate, [...]

EU Commission Approves Oracle-Sun Deal With No Conditions

It’s official. The Oracle-Sun merger has been approved by the EU Commission. There are no conditions. Here’s the press release, in which Neelie Kroes states that she is now satisfied that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition: “I am now satisfied that competition and innovation will be preserved on all the markets concerned. [...]