MySQL 5.6 Released

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Download:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.6.html


Benchmarks:

MySQL 5.6: 230% Faster than MySQL 5.5 (Read Only)
MySQL 5.6: 150% Faster than MySQL 5.5 (Read Write)
...

http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/benchmarks



What Is New in MySQL 5.6:

- You can create FULLTEXT indexes on InnoDB tables ...
- You can code MySQL applications that access InnoDB tables through a NoSQL-style API ...
- You have more flexibility to move around the .ibd files files created in file-per-table mode to suit your storage devices and database servers ...
- These table-partitioning enhancements were added ...
- ...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html


More:

http://www.mysql.com

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The big news for MySQL 5.6
was the inclusion of “NoSQL” features in the form of a memcached api for get and put operations ...

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/oracles-mysql-misses-the-nosql-mark


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ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB



MariaDB, a community developed fork of MySQL, will be the default implementation of MySQL in Fedora 19.





http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ReplaceMySQLwithMariaDB