Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL



From PCWorld:

The Development Milestone Release (DMR) for MySQL 5.6 comes with a number of new and still experimental features for the open source database system, including improved replication and the ability to bypass the SQL framework for faster data access.

As part of the open source LAMP stack -- which also includes Linux, Apache and Perl, Python and PHP -- MySQL is widely used in Web applications. Large, popular sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr use MySQL.

  Oracle Previews MySQL 5.6