InnoDB + BerkeleyDB ...
InnoDB + BerkeleyDB ...
Posted Feb 14, 2006 15:50 UTC (Tue) by DG (subscriber, #16978)Parent article: Oracle buys Sleepycat Software
No doubt Oracle could use this for extra leverage over MySQL.
InnoDB and BerkeleyDB being both owned by Oracle and forming two of the three transactional backends in MySQL.
Posted Feb 14, 2006 18:15 UTC (Tue)
by jonabbey (guest, #2736)
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Posted Feb 15, 2006 0:54 UTC (Wed)
by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
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Both InnoDB and BDB are Open Source. MySQL AB has made some bad decisions:
1. Depending upon a proprietary license to the GPL'd InnoDB
2. Looking to enhance DBD to replace InnoDB after Oracle bought InnoBase.
Nothing that has happened is necessarily bad for the Open Source MySQL.
This is only bad for MySQL AB, whose business model rests upon having a proprietary license with some table engine provider (with the requisite capabilities) that allows them to sell proprietary licenses to their customers.
Oracle could take BDB and license new enhancements under GPL or LGPL as appropriate, refuse to grant a proprietary license to MySQL AB (having seen the light of OSS) and it would be just as bad for MySQL AB, and the Open Source community would rightly love them (Oracle) for it.
Posted Feb 14, 2006 20:27 UTC (Tue)
by gvy (guest, #11981)
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Ugh, that's what they're up to, undoubtedly.InnoDB + BerkeleyDB ...
Not sure I would agree with "Ugh".InnoDB + BerkeleyDB ...
Maybe it's kind of corporate invitation for some company to sell itself on nice terms?...MySQL?