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[Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the end it always comes down to the business case. We can't be idealistic about that.

The bottom line on PBXT is that it wasn't a loss, but we didn't make much of a profit either.

But that was not the interesting part. The real interesting part was working together with MySQL and Sun, and we were doing that.

Just imagine if MySQL had IPO'ed. Just imagine if Oracle had not bought Sun...

We could all see that Falcon was struggling, so the potential was there. 

We knew about the potential on that side, and speculated.

But, if that is the bottom line, then I am pleased to say, there is a bonus on top of it all. I have met a lot of great people and made some very good friends!

I won't be at the Conference this year, but I know time is not a factor.

We'll, meet again and talk about the "old times" soon enough ;)

On Mar 10, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Tim Soderstrom wrote:

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> On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:47 PM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote:
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>>> Perhaps but I assume you're not running Facebook on DropBox :) Certainly there is still interesting use cases for RDBMS's and the engines therein. InnoDB has caught up so much that PBXT no longer has the edge, but I still find it very interesting. Were Paul to have the resources InnoDB does, I suspect PBXT would be significant.
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>> I agree with you. If there were more resources behind PBXT it could
>> have been very interesting. I don't know how much of it is
>> log-structured compared to the original design but I was very
>> interested in that. I blame myself and others who didn't have time to
>> help Paul get this to market. I suspect that PBXT still has advantages
>> compared to InnoDB on multi-core servers.
> 
> The log structure was very very cool, but I actually liked the hybrid approach Paul was doing with the fixed rows + log structure. It was quite elegant, although, being a casual observer in the whole process, it's hard for me to see the real impact of the design. Still, I found it very very cool.