Sat, 08 Oct 2005
Oracle announced yesterday that they've purchased
Innobase. There aren't too
many details yet.
Innobase is the Finnish company which developed the InnoDB engine for MySQL.
InnoDB brought MySQL many of the features necessary for deployment in
non-trivial installations, including support for transactions, row-level locking,
and foreign key constraints. These are some of the features that would allow
MySQL to be used in place of a commercial database such as Oracle. With the
imminent release of MySQL 5.0, which includes support for stored procedures,
triggers, and views, even more applications could be built on MySQL.
One of the main features in which Oracle beats out MySQL is in clustering. MySQL's
clustering, the NDB
engine is stil rather immature, and from what I understand, not having ever
used Oracle, it has some nifty clustering. I'm sure that it has some other
cool features that I've heard of. So, are we likely to see some Oracle
technology make it's way into MySQL? Or more pressure to purchase
licenses where they aren't needed?
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