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Oracle Announces Early Access to New Features of MySQL 5.6

By Nathesh
TMCnet Contributor

Oracle (News - Alert), a business software company, announced that its community has been provided early access to test and deploy the new features of MySQL 5.6. The company also invited users to offer feedback.

The new version of the MySQL is loaded with features to help enhance performance and data integration. The features opened for early access are in active development and are expected to be tweaked based on MySQL community’s feedback. After the development process is complete, these features are expected to be migrated to future Development Milestone and General Availability Releases.

According to Oracle, the MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. Its Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software. The software can be deployed by users as an open source product under general public license or they can opt to buy the standard license from Oracle.

Officials with the company exclaimed that Oracle continues to advance MySQL to address the evolving needs of application developers. This MySQL 5.6 early access release provides a preview of many important features that deliver enhanced performance, flexibility and scalability, and gives the MySQL community an opportunity to provide feedback to Oracle.

Some of new features that are available for users to download for beta testing and to provide feedback to Oracle engineering team are: MySQL community server; MySQL cluster; MySQL workbench (GUI tool); MySQL proxy; MySQL connectors; MySQL native driver for PHP; and more.

One of the enhancements included in the new MySQL version is the InnoDB storage engine for providing support for full text search, greater performance for write-intensive applications, and better scalability under high concurrency/user loads.