1. Is there a place for MySQL in an Oracle shop?
MySQL Overview
Is there a place for MySQL in an Oracle shop?

2. Who is Brian Rawlings? Data Architect @ Intermountain Healthcare
Database professional since 1994
B.S. degree in Computer Science
MySQL experience includes
ETL processes at Intermountain Healthcare
Hobby programming
NOT an Oracle employee
NOT a MySQL consultant
NOT selling anything
twitter.com/BrianRawlings

3. False What is MySQL? Some common perceptions include:
Only a starter database
Not very powerful
Not scalable
No transaction support
No replication
Only popular with people who don’t know about Postgres or other open-source alternatives
False

4. Who is using MySQL?

5. Facebook 750 Million active users (last 30 days)
50% of Active users log in on any day
Average user has 130 friends
Average user has joined 80 community pages
Average user creates 90 records monthly
30 Billion records served monthly
Source: facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics

6. Twitter 1 Billion tweets per week 140 Million tweets per day
1620 tweets per second
6939 record tweets per second
572,000 accounts in March 2011
1 Million Twitter apps
Source: blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

7. YouTube About 3 billion views a day About 11,500 views per second
45 hours of video uploaded every minute
Users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week
Millions of videos are favorited every day
100 million people take a social action on YouTube (likes, shares, comments, etc) every week
Source:

8. Why use MySQL?
“A lot of people using MySQL to create Web applications and online services choose to use MySQL because it enables them to scale up their environment in a fairly low-cost way,” says  Carl Olofson, research vice president of database management and data integration software research at International Data Corporation (IDC). “We’re also seeing a lot of companies using MySQL for reporting databases, databases for departmental servers, and databases for business-critical systems.”
Source: oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-jan/o11mysql html

9. Total Cost of Ownership
MySQL is less expensive than proprietary databases
Basically only paying for support

10. Total Cost of Ownership
MySQL Products
Community Edition - Free
Standard Edition – $2,000/server
Enterprise Edition - $5,000/server
Cluster Carrier Grade Edition - $10,000/server
ISV License also available

11. TCO Comparison MySQL Microsoft Sybase Oracle(?)
Product Line
MSSQL Server
Sybase ASE
Edition
Enterprise (1-4 socket server)
Enterprise
Price Model
Per Server
Per Socket
Per Core
Licence
(Per Unit) $0
$27,495
$44,270
Subscription (Per unit)
$5,000
$6,874
$9,739
Total License
$439,920
$1,416,640
Total Subscription
$60,000
$329,952
$934,944
TCO
$769,872
$2,351,584
Source: mysql.com/tcosavings/ (Oracle and IBM removed from this list when Oracle bought MySQL from Sun.)

12. Technical MySQL has the features you expect
Standard heap tables and Btree indexes
Partitioned tables
ACID transaction support
Row level locking
ANSI SQL
Server enforced referential integrity
Standard datatypes like blob, varchar, numeric
Built in replication
Stored procedures
Triggers
Functions
Cursors
Updatable views
Highly Available clusters
Cost based query optimizer
Backup with point in time recovery
Capable of terabyte size dbs
Column oriented data warehouse option
Bonus: open source

13. MySQL Versatility Connections Pluggable Storage Engines
Native C API, JDBC, ODBC, .NET, PHP, Python, Perl, VB
Pluggable Storage Engines
Memory, index & storage management
MyISAM, InnoDB, Cluster, Falcon, Archive, Federated, Merge, Memory…
Operating Systems
AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and others

14. MySQL Scalability Scale out, not up MySQL Clusters/Replication
Sharding

15. Ease of Use
Dowload the software and use complete the installation in less than 15 minutes.

16. MySQL vs Oracle Language differences Dual Sysdate Decode() Rownum NVL
Join (+) syntax
Date functions
Data types
Case Sensitivity
Source: mysqluc.com/presentations/mysql06/bradford_ronald.pdf

17. MySQL vs Oracle Language differences Regular Expressions
Lacking count, substr, instr , replace
No WITH statement
No compiled packages
No sequences, only auto-number
By default transactions are auto-committed

18. MySQL
Original Question: We’re an Oracle Shop. Is there any place for MySQL?
Replacement for Access
Data conveyance (ETL)
Parallel systems
Hybrid Systems
Replacement

19. Access Replacement Why do people use Access?
Already on their computer
Simple to use
Write SQL from drag-n-drop interface
Access databases can be bad
Multiple versions of the truth
No distribution
Limited security
Probably no backup, recovery, or version control plan

20. Access Replacement
Keep Access as a front end, point to MySQL database as an external source
Single version of the truth
Manage Security
Use one of many MySQL GUI tools
MySQL Query Browser
MySQL Workbench
DB Forge Studio
Lots of others

21. Data Conveyance Vendors may provide you with MySQL databases
You might provide your data a subset of data with a MySQL database
Integrity Constraints
Easy to QA

22. MySQL for Web Presence Oracle back end, MySQL Front end
When it comes to databases and database applications, Olofson doesn’t necessarily think that there’s a one-size-fits-all solution. In fact, he often sees organizations using a combination of database solutions, such as MySQL and Oracle Database. “You’ll frequently see MySQL being used in specialized roles, such as for Web presence, while a company’s back-office systems might be driven by Oracle Database,” says Olofson.
Source: oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-jan/o11mysql html

23. MySQL as Replacement
“We moved from a commercial [non-Oracle] enterprise database to MySQL in 2003, and it was a great move for us,” says Jeff Freund, CEO and founding chief technology officer of San Francisco, California–based Clickability. “MySQL requires lower overhead to manage and a lower cost for team and support resources, and it just fit much better with our scaling architecture and need to run a SaaS [software-as-a-service] platform.”
Source: oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2011/11-jan/o11mysql html

24. MySQL as Replacement When could it be considered? Two main factors
Thee larger the database the more complex it will be
How much reliance do you have on Oracle specific functionality that has no compliment in MySQL?
Bitmap indexes, packages, sequences, etc

25. Summary MySQL is a robust database platform
MySQL is the most popular DB on the web
MySQL is a great solution for “The Access problem”
MySQL could be considered for stand alone and hybrid applications, or as a replacement for current architecture.

26. Download the Software Download MySQL from the MySQL website.
dev.mysql.com/downloads/
Takes about 15 minutes

27. More Resources Mysql.com Planet.mysql.com
"Migrating to MySQL – Is it Right For You"
mysql.com/news-and-events/on-demand- webinars/display-od-299.htm
mysql-dba-journey.blogspot.com
An Oracle DBA's experience running MySQL

28. Questions