NuSphere MySQL Advantage
February 11, 2010 by admin
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NuSphere MySQL Advantage is a suite of four open-source software packages–proven, popular, and well-supported ones–that work together to run interactive, dynamic Internet sites. Far from just a straight CD-ROM distribution of publicly available software, NuSphere has done a great job of automating the packages’ installation processes (the suite installs under both Windows and Linux) so the four utilities interoperate smoothly. You can also install any or all of the … More >>
I tried this software and couldn’t create a simple database with out reading a lot and wasn’t easy to configure.
Rating: 1 / 5
Lots of good stuff in this box. Good documentation. THe headliner is the NuSphere database: it is just like MySQL except it has real row-locking so it isn’t SLO when multiple users are beating on it, and it has auto-crash recovery, so my beeper doesn’t go off.
Install is sweet, and works remotely for headless installs. Full webserver middleware stack (Apache, nusphere MySQL, Perl and PHP) installs on Linux and windoze, even on virgen systems. If you’ve ever tried to get bugzilla up under windoze, you’ll like this: it comes with a multi-platform bugzilla for free.
Some dba tools in the bundle, some apache stuff, but I haven’t tried it. For me, its the database stupid.
Nice support but telephone is extra, you have to use email.
Rating: 5 / 5