Date: 2008-04-21 17:11 Subject: GRAPH engine post-conf update Security: Public

With assistance from Antony Curtis who spent some coding time with me at the conf, and a number of helpful other individuals (Monty, Sergei, Timour, Igor, patg, Stewart, Brian, Mark, Paul, and others) who answered questions and looked things up, the earlier backend demo can now be executed from a MySQL 5.1 server with the OQGRAPH Engine plugin loaded. In other words, the basic glue has been completed, and the prototype works. Thanks all!

This was later in the week, so at the BoF Tuesday night we still had to make do with paper and the backend test tool, but Thursday evening and Friday I was able to demonstrate the real thing, including at the post-conf MySQL unconference at Google HQ. I was happy to see good interest in the GRAPH engine, and also received some very useful feedback.

Much more needs to be done, of course, but at least it's real working stuff now, well beyond the vaporware stage ;-)