MaxDB 7.6 production version released!

The new version 7.6 of MaxDB by MySQL has been released! This release is a production version, which means it is decleared stable and free of any critical bugs.

The new MaxDB 7.6.00.10 delivers several good benefits:

• Simplified installation process, with the released version of the Installation Manager GUI
• Increased High Availability, as most database parameters now can be changed in ONLINE operational mode
• Easier administration, through automatic update of statistics to ensure optimal optimizer performance, and through optional automatic re-creation of bad indexes
• Improved Storage management, as reduction and automatic extension of data volumes can be done in full operational state
• Better backup reliability, as log backup checks can be performed
• Performance improvements, through new parallel log writing and volume formatting, through shared catalog cache and shared prepared SQL statement caches, and through improved query cost calculation algorithm and parallel query execution
• SQL schema support finalized, SSL support for remote communication

For more details on the release, please see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/maxdb/intro_76.html.

The software can be downloaded here: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/maxdb/7.6.00.html.

To get a good overview of the MaxDB product, please see the new MaxDB Whitepaper, http://dev.mysql.com/doc/maxdb/pdf/whitepaper.pdf.