Comments on: Assasination attempt on MySQL? – Oracle Announces the Acquisition of Open Source Software Company, Innobase

By: Bert Jan Meinders

Bert Jan Meinders — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:48:36 +0000

And here’s why Oracle did it: http://www.lattimore.id.au/2005/10/30/oracle-express-xe/. A free Oracle database for all!!
OK, some restrictions like a maximum size of 4GB and maximmum RAM of 1GB but stilll quite usefull. Beta dowloads on
OTN, http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index.html

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:43:02 +0000

Also a good read can be found on the URL given here: http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/oracle/guide/archives/006192.asp

By: Zeger Hendrikse

Zeger Hendrikse — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:02:16 +0000

Some time ago, at Amis we surveyed the field of Open Source Databases.

Roughly speaking, the conclusion was that PostgreSql was the better database, but MySql had a larger user base. With these developments, PostgreSql seems the obvious choice to me, provided that you/a customer is keen on using an Open Source solution, of course.

At home I’ve recently (coincidentally?) switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL, and I’m a happy man

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:49:33 +0000

I got this idea from a sheet from Mr Abrahams (Oracle Nederland)., where he had a “Timeten” solution between RAC (midtier), Timesten (midtier), Oracle EE database (backend). Another point is that Timesten is much, much faster (it’s in memory, build for in memory use). What it lacks is a recovery/backup solution, that how i got this idea to implement innobase. Another point is that it fits somehow in the agressive SOA fentures (next is Weblogic?)

By: Lucas

Lucas — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:02:31 +0000

And why would Oracle Lite not be good enough for that?

By: Marco Gralike

Marco Gralike — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:32:32 +0000

This is now the second database solution within a year, asides Timesten, which was bought by Oracle. It could be that they want to fabric something which whoud fit in their fusion/SOA plans, for instance a realtime in memory database solution for the midtier or on a “lightweight” machine like a laptop/pda.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:50:56 +0000

You can of course look at this from a very positive side, being a MySQL supporter:
- Oracle deems InnoDB such outstanding technology that it is actually interested in it; that gives a lot of credit to the current InnoDB based MySQL implementations around the world
- Oracle deems MySQL such a serious contender in the (lower but not quite so low anymore end of the) Database Market; that too strengthens the confidence in MySQL.