This opening keynote discusses the current state of MySQL and the MySQL community, and what's happening moving forward.

1. Dolphins, now and beyond
Opening Keynote
FOSDEM 2010 MySQL Track
Ronald Bradford
http://ronaldbradford.com

2. Concerning Dolphins

3. Dolphins are:
•Smart
• Fast
• Communal
• Popular

4. Sakila - The MySQL Breed

5. MySQL is:
•Fast
• Free
• Popular
• Involved community

6. Our Pod - The MySQL Community

7. The MySQL Community is:
•Lists • User Groups
• Forums • Events & Conferences
• IRC • Forge
• Planet • Librarian
and more...

8. The MySQL Community is:
People

9. Values

10. MySQL has brought us:
•Work life & home life balance
• Work at home worldwide
• Openness to help
• Choices

11. Emerging Breeds

12. MySQL DNA
• Percona Performance Builds
• Our Delta
• MariaDB
• Drizzle
• InfiniDB / Infobright / Kickfire
and more...

13. Choices

18. NoSQL
• GROUP BY - Map Reduce
• Joins - Multiple++ Map Reduce
• Table Scan - Multi-Machine Map Reduce
• ORDER BY ... LIMIT - Natural Data Order
• Non Transctional - Eventual Consistency
• Schema Free Brian Aker Open SQL Camp 2009
http://krow.livejournal.com/#entry_677099

19. In Closing

20. The future of MySQL
• Available
• Free
• Open source
• A passionate community
• Your contribution to our community
and more...

21. http://www.mysql.org

22. What’s really important

23. More FREE Belgium beer