MySQL 5.0 has been without community releases for 4 months, and now Sun ships a "GA" version of MySQL 5.1 that, according to the original MySQL founder, is full of crashing bugs. It may be the time to seriously consider PosgreSQL and to keep an eye on Drizzle.

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Weekend links!

• Django 1.0.1 is out.

• CouchDB is really the kind of post-relational model database the web needs (via metajack).

• mtop: top for MySQL.

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Simon Willison points to an article on the MySQL query profiler, available since version 5.0.37. Looks much more powerful than the classic EXPLAIN.

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Nice diagnostic script for tuning MySQL servers: MySQL Performance Tuning Primer Script.

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