Snail in a Turtleneck

The aggregation pipeline code has finally been merged into the main development branch and is scheduled for release in 2.2. It lets you combine simple operations (like finding the max or min, projecting out fields, taking counts or averages) into a pipeline of operations, making a lot of things that were only possible by using [...]

On Monday, I gave a presentation on MongoDB to the San Francisco MySQL user group.  It was a lot of fun, you can watch the recording on ustream: Streaming Video by Ustream.TV Apparently the audio was buzzy (I haven’t actually listened to it myself yet). The audience especially enjoyed this slide about MySQL’s current situation: [...]