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SAP and MySQL Join Forces
An anonymous reader writes "Heise Online is reporting that SAP and MySQL are going to cooperate (German article, you may want to use Google's translation). Short summary: MySQL and SAP are going to develop a new database server. 'The primary responsibility for the development and product management is with MySQL' says SAP spokesperson Karl-Heinz Hess. Until the new database is released, SAP will continue to develop its own free database system SAP DB, however it will now use the MySQL brand name." On a related note, IBM is introducing a low-end version of DB2.
SAP DB is pretty much equivalent to Oracle 7.3.4 which is to say that it's a solid product for many real-world applications, but lacks many of the features for truly high-end deployment, like clustering, complex replication, guaranteed messaging, etc. I'd take Sapdb over MySQL any day, and probably over Postgres too. Another nice thing about SAP DB is that it can emulate Oracle's system tables, so an Oracle DBA can administer a SAP DB system very easily.
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Although this is off-topic I've wanted to use this link for a long time so, well, here it is.
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i on_95/sql r95-Teradata.html
"..the INGRES project at U.C. Berkeley. The INGRES project had a language called QUEL. They started a company that implemented QUEL. QUEL fought SQL tooth-and-nail, and explained how QUEL was better than SQL in many different ways, and in fact it is better at doing aggregates. There are lots of areas where QUEL is better."
"..Tom Price: Although the first code they [Ingress] shipped was SQL on top of QUEL
Mike Blasgen: It was see-QUEL. [laughter] That's right."
http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reun
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Matt
huh. I guess the docs on the mysql site must be wrong then.
s ays:
:-)
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/What-is.html
The official way to pronounce MySQL is ``My Ess Que Ell'' (not ``my sequel''), but we don't mind if you pronounce it as ``my sequel'' or in some other localised way.
but hey, who reads the docs anyway, not a MySQL guru like you eh?
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SAP isn't a database. It is a software package, a collection of programs like PeopleSoft and Oracle Applications, which allows for the management HR, payroll, and industry specific applications... SAP software still runs best on Oracle databases, although they will never limit themselves to that statement. SAP is database independent and mySql is just another tool that they can use for marketing
DKW
Brilliant.
SAP no doubt wants a piece of the enterprise DB pie...
They've been at pains to claim otherwise. According to material on the SAPDB web site, they *are not* interested in selling a relational database system. Rather, they want an enterprise-class, royalty-free database they can use as the basis for their core apps.
SAPDB is trying to popularize its main applications (ERP, CRM) in smaller businesses than those in which they have traditionally been popular. Microsoft is just now entering this same space; SAP will never be able to compete with Microsoft in the small(ish) business market if the price of SAP's software must include an expensive relational database license.
Here's a quote from the whitepaper.