Announcing: SQL Relay Enterprise: MySQL Front-End Modules

SQL Relay Enterprise Modules provide advanced features not available in the standard SQL Relay distribution. MySQL Front-End Modules are now available.

MySQL Front-End Modules allow MySQL applications to use SQL Relay without modification and without a drop-in replacement library. Additional SQL Relay Enterprise Modules are coming soon.

MySQL Front-End Modules

Whether written using the native MySQL API, or a connector of some sort, MySQL apps communicate with the database using the MySQL client-server protocol.

Whether written using the native SQL Relay API, or a connector of some sort, SQL Relay apps generally communicate with SQL Relay using the SQL Relay client-server protocol.

However, the MySQL Front-End Modules enable SQL Relay to speak the MySQL client-server protocol. This allows MySQL apps to communicate directly with SQL Relay, rather than to a MySQL database, without modification, and without using a drop-in replacement library.

In this configuration, SQL Relay becomes a transparent proxy. MySQL apps aimed at SQL Relay still think that they're talking to a MySQL database, but in fact, are talking to SQL Relay.

Once the app is talking to SQL Relay, most of SQL Relay's features become available to the app, including Connection Pooling, Throttling, High Availability Features, Query Routing, Query Filtering, and Connection Schedules.

Since SQL Relay supports a variety of database backends, the app can also be redirected to any of these databases, instead of the MySQL database it was originally written to use.

Some queries may have to be modified to use the syntax of the new database and some code may need to be changed, but a full rewrite of the app should not be necessary.

Availability

Currently, the MySQL Front-End Modules are available for RPM-based Linux and must be used with the SQL Relay Binary Distribution For Linux. Support for non-RPM-based Linux and Windows will be available soon.

The MySQL Front-End Modules (and eventually, other SQL Relay Enterprise Modules) may be downloaded for free, but must be licensed commercially. 30-day trial licenses are also available.

Of course, the standard SQL Relay distribution, which the SQL Relay Enterprise Modules compliment, is still free to download and to use, as always.

See the following links for more information.

Installing the SQL Relay Enterprise Modules
Licensing the MySQL Front-End Modules
Configuring the MySQL Front-End Modules

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SQL Relay 0.67.0 Release Announcement

Version 0.67.0 of SQL Relay, the powerful connection pool, load balancer, query router, and database proxy, is now available.

This release mainly fixes a bunch of obscure bugs in the MySQL drop-in replacement library. A 1-byte blob-related memory leak has been fixed. An obscure bug in the firebird code has been fixed. /etc/alternatives/java_sdk is now the preferred Java SDK. The server module API has been refactored a bit too.

Full ChangeLog follows...

• general documenation clean-up
• added missing all: target to man/Makefile
• mysql_info in drop-in library for mysql returns NULL instead of "" now
• mysql_errno in the drop-in library now returns the error number from the DB, instead of CR_UNKNOWN_ERROR, if no error map is provided, and the backend database is known to be mysql
• mysql_refresh in the drop-in library works with options other than REFRESH_GRANT now
• mysql_shutdown/kill in the drop-in library return 1 on failure now rather than 2000
• date/time and timestamp types are recognized as binary types now
• year/timestamp types are recognized as unsigned types now
• TINY/MEDIUM/LONG_TEXT types are recognized as blobs now
• mapping date/time to MYSQL_TYPE_DATE/TIME, rather than MYSQL_TYPE_DATETIME is the default in the drop-in library now and SQLR_MAP_DATETIME_TO_DATE has been removed
• mysql drop-in library sets column flags correctly now
• mysql drop-in library runs appropriate kill/shutdown queries now
• mysql connection uses non-stmt api for "show *" queries now
• mysql drop-in library runs "show processlist" for mysql_list_processes
• mysql drop-in library supports date/time/datetime input binds now instead of just treating them all as datetimes
• connection modules differentiate between date/time/datetime binds now instead of just treating them all as datetimes
• added result set row translation module framework
• updated firebird connection module to the fieldstruct.textbuffer instead of fieldbuffer for non-text to text translations
• added support for negative times in mysql connection module and drop-in library
• added translation-failure event
• general refactoring of server module API
• consolidated sqlr-scaler code
• fixed a 1-byte empty-blob memory leak in the client
• /etc/alternatives/java_sdk is preferred, if found, now

Rudiments 0.57.0 Release Announcement

Version 0.57.0 of Rudiments, the C++ class library for developing systems and applications, is now available.

Not much new in this release, actually. Mainly fixes for sparc platforms and little-endian systems.

Full ChangeLog follows...

• fixed subtle bug in codegree::compareValue
• replaced several type-punned pointer dereferences with bytestring::copy() to avoid bus errors on sparc and other platforms that require assignments from aligned locations
• added filesystem::hostToLittlEndian/littleEndianToHost
• added missing __LITTLE_ENDIAN definitions to filedescriptor.cpp
• added minimal glibc-specific process::backtrace() method