MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet covers a talk by Martin Mickos at the MySQL Users Conference, with an emphasis on his comments about Oracle. " The InnoDB 'storage engine,' which remains open-source software, is firmly in Mickos' plus column. 'We renewed our contract with Oracle for several years,' he said. In the minus column are the no-cost database products such as Oracle's Express Edition or IBM's DB2 Community Edition, which Mickos labeled as 'crippleware,' designed to hook customers on full-featured but expensive versions."

MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:24 UTC (Thu) by jmansion (guest, #36515) [Link]

They might be crippled, but the capacity of these systems (and the ones from MS and Sybase) is pretty impressive compared to mid end transactional systems of even a few years ago: I think its churlish to complain from a user perspective. But then Mickos has a specific agenda here.

Is it really that Oracle, IBM and Sybase are concerned about mySQL anyway? Or are they more worried about SqlServer Express? Microsoft have had a low-end redistributable SQLServer runtime for some time, but the new edition looks very handy.

MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 28, 2006 10:27 UTC (Fri) by denials (subscriber, #3413) [Link] (1 responses)

DB2's free version has a maximum limit of 2 CPUs, 4GB of RAM, and an
unlimited database size, which may be "crippled" (what an ugly term) in
comparison to its enterprise edition product -- but I'm sure that limit is
more than what 99% of MySQL databases run on.

Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...

Ah well, talking smack is just more proof that MySQL AB is a real
profit-oriented corporation. You don't see a PostgreSQL CEO making these
kinds of statements, because PostgreSQL is a community project and doesn't
have a CEO; they don't need to worry about market share, profits, or media
coverage.

MySQL CEO offers mixed view of Oracle (ZDNet)

Posted Apr 28, 2006 13:00 UTC (Fri) by jmansion (guest, #36515) [Link]

> Oracle, on the other hand, is capped at 1CPU and 1GB of RAM, which is
hardly enough room to run Oracle in...

Well, those of us who marvelled at the sheer unbridled horsepower of an SMP Sparcserver 10 would probably have been over the moon with a single top of the line Opteron and 'only' 1GB of database cache. ;-/

I would've thought a single Opteron could give most small RAID arrays a pretty good kicking, anyway.