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A bit off the mark
"This also screws MySQL since they were possibly going to switch to SleepyCat for the data store engine."

If you read company documentation, particularly their future plans, you would know that Berkeley DB was offered as an option, just as InnoDB and MyISAM are. Berkeley DB was never designed to be the main storage engine -- I have no idea where you got that from.

"Now that option has pretty much been trashed, and Oracle also baught the current data store (Innobase). Look for MySQL to look for a data store that NOBODY can buy out. They might have to develop their own."

Well, first of all, you can't "trash" an Open Source license. Even if Oracle releases a new closed-source version, the open source version will live on, and judging by the number of developers for Berkeley DB, I'm sure development would continue under an open source license.

The InnoDB transactional engine is another story. MySQL licenses that from Innobase Oy. InnoDB is GNU GPL, which means MySQL GPL versions will go on unaffected - Heikki Tuuri, the creator of InnoDB. However, the commercial version of MySQL remains vulnerable once the current license expires in 2006.

Interestingly, the press fails to consider another MySQL product, MaxDB -- the jointly-developed database from SAP and MySQL, which is has fully transaction-compliant storage engine. Finally, MySQL supposedly has been working on a transactional version of MYISAM for some time. I say supposedly because it is not found anywhere in their roadmap or on the dev lists. Considering the importance of a transactional engine, I'm sure that MySQL is working on a solution -- either by modifying the SAP-derived MaxDB storage engine or MYISAM.

Any way you look at it, this will most certainly be a critical point in time for MySQL AB.
Posted by: billywill   Posted on: 02/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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is Oracle buying the competition?  Linux Geek | 02/14/06
This is a VERY interesting question. All eyes are on Oracle now.  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
A bit off the mark  billywill | 02/14/06
You forget the MySQL license model. They must be able to offer comercial  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Commercial licensing is no problem  krehbiel | 02/14/06
Fortunately, Innodb is still GPL  krehbiel | 02/14/06
True, Inno is still GPL, but MySQL can't sell commercial licenses.  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Oracle bought Innodb and Sleepycat to kill them.  krehbiel | 02/14/06
Well, people are going to wise up and only use components that can't be  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
I had thought about using SleepyCat for a data store in one of my projects,  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Looks like open source is the new shareware  ordaj@... | 02/14/06
Presure for this from US based Governement Agencies  mighetto | 02/14/06
Biting off nose to spite face...  techboy_z | 02/14/06
WISE UP Indeed! In Ellison's Own words  John Zern | 02/14/06

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