New storage engines for MySQL: NitroEDB and BrightHouse
Zack Urlocker, Vice President for Marketing at MySQL AB, wrote a post introducing new MySQL storage engines, NitroEDB and BrightHouse. What’s their claim to fame?
NitroEDB concentrates on dealing with large data sets: “NitroEDB is the only relational data management product that supports the full spectrum of data management needs, from extremely fast in-memory applications to huge-volume, very large database (VLDB) on-disk server systems.”
BrightHouse is also dealing with large data sets, but for a different problem - it solves the problems of data compression in large data warehousing projects: “BrightHouse compresses data at an average ratio of 10:1 (peak compression ratios exceed 30:1). For example, BrightHouse compresses 30 TB into 3 TB whilst maintaining immediate and comprehensive query capability. Additionally, BrightHouse operates on commodity-based Intel hardware thereby allowing installation on existing, low-cost platforms.”