MySQL Custom Storage Engine Certification

• Do you have or are you developing a custom storage engine for the MySQL database server?
• Do you want to test your storage engine with a world-class suite of tests to validate your support of MySQL database functionality and verify that it is supported correctly?
• Do you want your customers to have confidence that your storage engine performs at the level that they have come to expect from MySQL software?
• Is your storage engine compatible with MySQL's advanced features?
• Do you want your storage engine tested across multiple platforms?
• Would you like to display the MySQL Certified logo on your applicable marketing materials and have your storage engine listed in MySQL's solutions catalog as a MySQL Certified Storage Engine?

Then MySQL Custom Storage Engine Certification is for you! Our storage engine experts will guide you through the certification process step by step, identifying issues found prior to certification, and providing expert advice to help you resolve issues found during the testing process. In addition, a MySQL Storage Engine Consultant will work with you to optimize our certification process to cover the features that your storage engine supports.

A dedicated MySQL Storage Engine Consultant will work with your team to:

• Audit the features supported by your storage engine against the features of MySQL's database software
• Analyze the functionality of your storage engine
• Determine which standard MySQL tests do not apply to your storage engine
• Define any new tests, or integrate your tests (as agreed by MySQL on a case-by-case basis), that are needed for the unique features of your storage engine
• Help identify issues with your storage engine's integration with MySQL software
• Run the applicable MySQL certification tests
• Review the results of the tests and provide expert advice to help you resolve issues generated by the tests
• After successful testing, review and, as appropriate (as determined by MySQL) annotate MySQL's certification document with your comments regarding the results

Scope of Work

• Storage engine assessment
• Create custom tests — or integrate applicable client tests -- for mutually-agreeable unique features
• Preliminary certification test
• Preliminary certification test review
• Final certification test
• Final certification test review

Deliverables

• Summary report of storage engine certification feature audit
• Limited custom test development or integration, if necessary
• Preliminary certification test review
• Final certification test review
• Certification document, after you and MySQL agree that applicable acceptance criteria have been met
• Subject to MySQL certification, use of the MySQL Certified logo and listing in MySQL's solutions catalog.

Benefits

• Comprehensive functional and feature coverage testing as part of the certification process
• A documented understanding of what your storage engine supports and what it does not
• Access to a MySQL storage engine expert
• A comprehensive performance profile of the performance of your storage engine for basic MySQL database operations and operation mixes

Duration

The MySQL Storage Engine Certification package includes:

• Up to 3 days of on-site or off-site analysis of your storage engine
• Up to 2 days of custom test development, or review, adaptation and integration of custom tests already developed (more days will add to the cost)
• 2 runs of the certification tests, i.e., 1 preliminary run and 1 final run
• Remote (by phone or other electronic means) meetings to review results
• Up to 2 days remote work to complete MySQL's certification document, subject to actual certification by MySQL

Pricing

• $50,000 including travel expenses
• $15,000 per additional certification test run
• $1,999 per additional day of custom test development and/or test results analysis

How to Buy

Please contact the MySQL Consulting Team.

Prerequisites

Certification of custom storage engines requires your agreement with additional OEM, reseller, and/or solutions catalog terms and conditions. For more information, please contact the MySQL Consulting Team.