Is there a way to install the brighthouse engine to an existing MySQL install?  I’ve been under the impression that I could “enable” brighthouse much in the same way I can add other pluggable engines to an existing install of MySQL.  I would love to add brighthouse support to an existing server, and selectively pick certain engines for certain tables.  Similarly, I would like to take advantage of the existing infrastructure I have in place for support of my brighthouse based system, which is much harder to do if I start with a “fresh” install.

Unless I’m misreading it, it seems I have to install a specialized version of mysql in order to get brighthouse support.

Hi,

Our integration with MySQL is quite deep and we had to modify MySQL sources in several places. So the full installation is needed.

Regards,

I understand that Infobright has its own optimizer & that requires that the engine brighthouse must be coupled with its own optimizer. Howerver, Drizzle is working on de-coupling all the parts of mysql. Are you all working with the drizzle group so that in the future we can just plugin the brighthouse engine & optimizer?

Actually there are several independent attempts at this (including Drizzle), and we do intend to be involved in at least one.  The practical outcomes are of course some time away…

Shawn