These are the developers that are or have been employed by MySQL AB
to work on the MySQL database software, roughly in the order they
started to work with us. Following each developer is a small list of the
tasks that the developer is responsible for, or the accomplishments they
have made. All developers are involved in support.
Michael (Monty) Widenius
Lead developer and main author of the MySQL server (mysqld).
New functions for the string library.
Most of the mysys library.
The ISAM and MyISAM libraries (B-tree index file
handlers with index compression and different record formats).
The HEAP library. A memory table system with our superior full dynamic
hashing. In use since 1981 and published around 1984.
The replace program (take a look at it, it's COOL!).
Connector/ODBC (MyODBC), the ODBC driver for Windows.
Fixing bugs in MIT-pthreads to get it to work for MySQL Server. And
also Unireg, a curses-based application tool with many utilities.
Porting of mSQL tools like msqlperl, DBD/DBI, and
DB2mysql.
Most of crash-me and the foundation for the MySQL benchmarks.
David Axmark
Initial main writer of the Reference Manual,
including enhancements to texi2html.
Automatic Web site updating from the manual.
Initial Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool support.
Licensing.
Parts of all the text files. (Nowadays only the `README' is
left. The rest ended up in the manual.)
Lots of testing of new features.
Our in-house Free Software legal expert.
Mailing list maintainer (who never has the time to do it right...).
Our original portability code (more than 10 years old now). Nowadays
only some parts of mysys are left.
Someone for Monty to call in the middle of the night when he just got
that new feature to work.
Chief "Open Sourcerer" (MySQL community relations).
Jani Tolonen
mysqlimport
A lot of extensions to the command-line clients.
PROCEDURE ANALYSE()
Sinisa Milivojevic
Compression (with zlib) in the client/server protocol.
Perfect hashing for the lexical analyzer phase.
Multi-row INSERT
mysqldump -e option
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE
SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWSSELECT option
--max-user-connections=... option
net_read and net_write_timeout
GRANT/REVOKE and SHOW GRANTS FOR
New client/server protocol for 4.0
UNION in 4.0
Multiple-table DELETE/UPDATE
Derived tables in 4.1
User resources management
Initial developer of the MySQL++ C++ API and the MySQLGUI client.
Tonu Samuel (past developer)
VIO interface (the foundation for the encrypted client/server protocol).
MySQL Filesystem (a way to use MySQL databases as files
and directories).
The CASE expression.
The MD5() and COALESCE() functions.
RAID support for MyISAM tables.
Sasha Pachev
Initial implementation of replication (up to version 4.0).
SHOW CREATE TABLE.
mysql-bench
Matt Wagner
MySQL test suite.
Webmaster (until 2002).
Coordinator of development.
Miguel Solorzano
Win32 development and release builds.
Windows NT server code.
WinMySQLAdmin
Timothy Smith (past developer)
Dynamic character sets support.
configure, RPMs and other parts of the build system.
Initial developer of libmysqld, the embedded server.
Sergei Golubchik
Full-text search.
Added keys to the MERGE library.
Jeremy Cole
Proofreading and editing this fine manual.
ALTER TABLE ... ORDER BY ....
UPDATE ... ORDER BY ....
DELETE ... ORDER BY ....
Indrek Siitan
Designing/programming of our Web interface.
Author of our newsletter management system.
Jorge del Conde
MySQLCC (MySQL Control Center)
Win32 development
Initial implementation of the Web site portals.
Venu Anuganti
MyODBC 3.51
New client/server protocol for 4.1 (for prepared statements).
Arjen Lentz
Maintainer of the MySQL Reference Manual.
Preparing the O'Reilly printed edition of the manual.
Alexander (Bar) Barkov, Alexey (Holyfoot) Botchkov, and Ramil Kalimullin
Spatial data (GIS) and R-Trees implementation for 4.1
Unicode and character sets for 4.1; documentation for same
Oleksandr (Sanja) Byelkin
Query cache in 4.0
Implementation of subqueries (4.1).
Aleksey (Walrus) Kishkin and Alexey (Ranger) Stroganov
Benchmarks design and analysis.
Maintenance of the MySQL test suite.
Zak Greant
Open Source advocate, MySQL community relations.
Carsten Pedersen
The MySQL Certification program.
Lenz Grimmer
Production (build and release) engineering.
Peter Zaitsev
SHA1(), AES_ENCRYPT() and AES_DECRYPT() functions.
Debugging, cleaning up various features.
Alexander (Salle) Keremidarski
Support.
Debugging.
Per-Erik Martin
Lead developer for stored procedures (5.0) and triggers.
Jim Winstead
Lead Web developer.
Mark Matthews
Connector/J driver (Java).
Peter Gulutzan
SQL standards compliance.
Documentation of existing MySQL code/algorithms.
Character set documentation.
Guilhem Bichot
Replication, from MySQL version 4.0.
Fixed handling of exponents for DECIMAL.
Author of mysql_tableinfo.
Antony T. Curtis
Porting of the MySQL Database software to OS/2.
Mikael Ronstrom
Much of the initial work on NDB Cluster until 2000. Roughly half the
code base at that time. Transaction protocol, node recovery, system
restart and restart code and parts of the API functionality.
Lead Architect, developer, debugger of NDB Cluster 1994-2004
Lots of optimisations
Jonas Oreland
On-line Backup
The automatic test environment of MySQL Cluster
Portability Library for NDB Cluster
Lots of other things
Pekka Nouisiainen
Ordered index implementation of MySQL Cluster
BLOB support in MySQL Cluster
Charset support in MySQL Cluster
Martin Skold
Unique index implementation of MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
Magnus Svensson
The test framework for MySQL Cluster
Integration of NDB Cluster into MySQL
Tomas Ulin
Lots of work on configuration changes for simple installation and use of
MySQL Cluster
While MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL server
and the MySQL manual, we wish to recognize those who have made
contributions of one kind or another to the MySQL distribution.
Contributors are listed here, in somewhat random order:
Win32 port with Borland compiler. mysqlshutdown.exe and
mysqlwatch.exe
David J. Hughes
For the effort to make a shareware SQL database. At TcX, the predecessor
of MySQL AB, we started with mSQL, but found that it couldn't
satisfy our purposes so instead we wrote an SQL interface to our
application builder Unireg. mysqladmin and mysql client are
programs that were largely influenced by their mSQL counterparts.
We have put a lot of effort into making the MySQL syntax a superset of
mSQL. Many of the API's ideas are borrowed from mSQL to
make it easy to port free mSQL programs to the MySQL API.
The MySQL software doesn't contain any code from mSQL.
Two files in the distribution (`client/insert_test.c' and
`client/select_test.c') are based on the corresponding (non-copyrighted)
files in the mSQL distribution, but are modified as examples showing
the changes necessary to convert code from mSQL to MySQL Server.
(mSQL is copyrighted David J. Hughes.)
Ported (and extended) the benchmark suite to DBI/DBD. Have
been of great help with crash-me and running benchmarks. Some new
date functions. The mysql_setpermission script.
Configure updates for Tru64, large file support and better TCP wrappers
support.
John Birrell
Emulation of pthread_mutex() for OS/2.
Benjamin Pflugmann
Extended MERGE tables to handle INSERTS. Active member
on the MySQL mailing lists.
Jocelyn Fournier
Excellent spotting and reporting innumerable bugs
(especially in the MySQL 4.1 subquery code).
Marc Liyanage
Maintaining the Mac OS X packages and providing invaluable feedback
on how to create Mac OS X PKGs.
Robert Rutherford
Providing invaluable information and feedback about the QNX port.
Previous developers of NDB Cluster
Lots of people were involved in various ways summer students, master thesis
students, employees. In total more than 100 people so too many to mention here.
Notable name is Ataullah Dabaghi who up until 1999 contributed around a
third of the code base. A special thanks also to developers of the AXE system
which provided much of the architecturial foundations for NDB Cluster with
blocks, signals and crash tracing functionality. Also credit should be given
to those who believed in the ideas enough to allocate of their budgets for its
development from 1992 to present time.
The following people has helped us with writing the MySQL documentation and
translating the documentation or error messages in MySQL.
Paul DuBois
Ongoing help with making this manual correct and understandable.
That includes rewriting Monty's and David's attempts at English into
English as other people know it.
Kim Aldale
Helped to rewrite Monty's and David's early attempts at English into English.
The following is a list of the creators of the libraries we have
included with the MySQL server source to make it easy to compile and
install MySQL. We are very thankfully to all individuals that have
created these and it has made our life much easier.
Fred Fish
For his excellent C debugging and trace library. Monty has made a number
of smaller improvements to the library (speed and additional options).
Richard A. O'Keefe
For his public domain string library.
Henry Spencer
For his regex library, used in WHERE column REGEXP regexp.
Chris Provenzano
Portable user level pthreads. From the copyright: This product includes
software developed by Chris Provenzano, the University of California,
Berkeley, and contributors. We are currently using version 1_60_beta6
patched by Monty (see `mit-pthreads/Changes-mysql').
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler
For the zlib library (used on MySQL on Windows).
Bjorn Benson
For his safe_malloc (memory checker) package which is used in when you
configure MySQL with --debug.
Free Software Foundation
The readline library (used by the mysql command-line client).
The NetBSD foundation
The libedit package (optionally used by the mysql command-line
client).
The following is a list of creators/maintainers of some of the most
important API/packages/applications that a lot of people use with MySQL.
We can't list every possible package here because the list would then be
way to hard to maintain. For other packages, please refer to the
software portal at http://solutions.mysql.com/software/.
The following is a list of some of the tools we have used to create MySQL.
We use this to express our thanks to those that has created them as without
these we could not have made MySQL what it is today.
Free Software Foundation
From whom we got an excellent compiler (gcc), an excellent
debugger (gdb and the libc library (from which we have
borrowed `strto.c' to get some code working in Linux).
Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team
For a really great editor/environment used by almost everybody at
MySQL AB.
Julian Seward
Author of valgrind, an excellent memory checker tool that has helped
us find a lot of otherwise hard to find bugs in MySQL.
Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller
For DDD (The Data Display Debugger) which is an excellent
graphical frontend to gdb).
While MySQL AB owns all copyrights in the MySQL server
and the MySQL manual, we wish to recognize the following companies,
which helped us finance the development of the MySQL server,
such as by paying us for developing a new feature or giving us hardware
for development of the MySQL server.
VA Linux / Andover.net
Funded replication.
NuSphere
Editing of the MySQL manual.
Stork Design studio
The MySQL Web site in use between 1998-2000.
Intel
Contributed to development on Windows and Linux platforms.
