League of Professional System Administrators - Database

Zmanda

wdlowry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:01:30 -0700

Short Description:
Open source backup

Home Page:
zmanda.com

Release Date:
Sat, 2006-10-28 19:00

Status:
Active

Long Description:

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

* Schedule full and incremental logical or raw backups of your MySQL database
* Centralized backup management
* Perform backup that is the best match for your storage engine and your MySQL configuration
* Get e-mail notification about status of your backups
* Monitor and obtain reports about your backups (including RSS feeds)
* Verify your backup images
* Compress and encrypt your backup images
* Implement Site or Application specific backup policies
* Recover database easily to any point in time or to any particular database event
* Custom plugins to tailor MySQL backups to your environment

Falcon

doug — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:13:38 -0800

Short Description:
Falcon is a transactional storage engine, based on Netfrastructure database engine integrated into Mysql

Home Page:
forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon

Release Date:
Sat, 2006-11-04 10:00

Status:
New

Long Description:

The main goals of Falcon are to exploit large memory for more than just a bigger cache, to use threads and processors for data migration.

You can find a video-presentation on Falcon in the MySQL_Tutorials category.

What is Falcon

transactional MySQL storage engine
based on Netfrastructure database engine
engine has been in mission critical apps for more than 4 years
extended and integrated into MySQL

Falcon is NOT

an InnoDB clone
Firebird
a Firebird clone
a standalone database management system
Netfrastructure

phpMyAdmin

AHand — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:52:38 -0700

Short Description:
Web based gui for administration of MySQL databases

Home Page:
www.phpmyadmin.net

Release Date:
Sun, 2001-03-18 00:00

Status:
Active

Long Description:

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges,export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages. GPL License information. (from the official site)