Alpha release v05.06 of the BLOB streaming engine

Alpha version 5.06 of the BLOB streaming engine for MySQL has been released. You can download the source code from www.blobstreaming.org/download. The documentation has also been updated.

What's new in 5.06:

• The BLOB streaming engine can now be used with MyISAM tables as well as tables created by any other MySQL storage engine. 
• The name of the PrimeBase BLOB streaming engine has been changed from MyBS to PBMS which stands for "PrimeBase Media Streaming".

This version introduces a couple of new term:

• streaming-enabled table: This is any table created by a streaming-enabled engine such as PBXT, or has triggers defined on blob referencing columns that notify the PBMS engine when BLOB references are inserted, updated, and deleted.
• BLOB reference column: This is a column in a stream-enabled table that contains PBMS BLOB references and notifies the PBMS engine when data is inserted, updated, or deleted from the column.

The big news though is that as of this version you no longer need to have PBXT installed in order to use the PBMS engine. The PBMS engine provides a set of UDFs and client API functions that enable it to be used with tables created by any storage engine. The following is an example of how to create a streaming enabled MyISAM table:

Create table x.foo(c1 integer, c2 longblob) ENGINE = MYISAM;

create trigger x.foo_insert_trig BEFORE INSERT on x.foo for each row BEGIN set NEW.c2 = pbms_insert_blob_trig("x", "foo", 2, NEW.c2); END

create trigger x.foo_update_trig BEFORE UPDATE on x.foo for each row BEGIN set NEW.c2 = pbms_update_blob_trig("x", "foo", 2, OLD.c2, NEW.c2); END

create trigger x.foo_delete_trig BEFORE UPDATE on x.foo for each row BEGIN declare dummy integer; set dummy = pbms_delete_blob_trig("x", "foo", 2, OLD.c2); END

As a result of the name change you will see that any use of the letters 'mybs' has been changed to 'pbms' throughout the code and documentation.

Of lesser importance but also of note: I have become the official contact person for the BLOB streaming engine. Paul is still very much involved with it but is currently concentrating his efforts on the PBXT engine.

Barry