Open Source Database Magazine

Exciting news!

The next issue of Open Source Database Magazine is now available. This information-packed issue has over 60 pages of information including:

• Firebird’s Road Trip and What’s New with 2.5
• Coding Corner: Trees – Where’s the Performance?
• PostgreSQL’s tsvector: Secret Sauce for Search Engines
• The Lab: The XtraBackup Program for MySQL – Part Two
• Drizzle – A Lightweight Database for the Web
• Kontrollbase: Enterprise grade MySQL monitoring and analytics
• Creating a Twitter Mashup with MongoDB
• Introducing LucidDB

Plus the usual news and views. All of this for $4.95.  It is simply the biggest and the best issue we have ever released. Ready to sign up? Head over here to register and then you can download the new issue. Curious as to what this is all about? I just posted an online addendum to the Drizzle article in our free content section that will give you a taste of what you can expect.

Thanks to the contributors. You all did a great job and I appreciate it!

Sorry the website isn’t currently as polished as the magazine. While it doesn’t look pretty, it is functioning. And now that the magazine is out I can turn my attention to it again.  If you experience any problems let me know at editor AT osdbzine.net.

thanks,

keith

Hey everyone,

I have had an absolutely overwhelming response to my posts about call for articles for the OSDB Mag Fall issue. So much response that for the first time I am going to have to defer some articles until the next issue in January.

However, there is one small piece to the puzzle that I am still missing. I would really like to include a feature-length article ( 6 – 8 pages) on Drizzle since the planned Bell milestone is fast approaching. The article can cover the history of Drizzle, its purpose and future plans. You can walk through the setup of Drizzle and how to interact with it.  There is plenty of material to cover for 6 – 8 pages. I really need someone from the Drizzle community to step forward for this article. It is a great opportunity to reach a large audience who have not necessarily had any contact with Drizzle. Even modest fame and a little fortune  Details on the recent changes in OSDB Magazine can be found in this post.

This article would be a great complement to the podcast interview I did with Brian Aker kicking off the OSDB podcast back in July.

I can be reached at editor@osdbzine.net. I need to hear from you as soon as possible as the articles need to be finished by the end of the month.

thanks,

keith

Hey everyone,

I finally took found the time to set up a blog for Open Source Database Magazine. Here I will be posting information about calls for articles, new releases of the magazine and such.  For those who don’t know, Open Source Database Magazine is a online magazine that is devoted to technical articles about any of the available open source-licensed databases.

Interested in MySQL, Postgres or Drizzle? You will find them here. What about SQLite, Hadoop and CouchDB? Those also. If it is a database, and has an open source license we will discuss it here.

thanks,

keith