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MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market

Posted by Zonk on from the where's-the-blue-boxes dept.

Rob wrote to mention an article discussing MySQL's intent to become 'the Ikea of databases'. From the piece: "While new entrants into the open source database market, such as EnterpriseDB and Pervasive Software, have made no secret of their intentions to chase Oracle's market share, Mr Mickos said MySQL is happy to leave them to it. 'We are thankful that they are there to define the market, there is no product if you're the only vendor,' he said. "Pervasive and EnterpriseDB are going up against Oracle. We don't want to be in that space, we don't want to take the heat from Oracle. If you're working in a zoo you don't want to be the one who has to brush the teeth of the lion.'"

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  1. Does that mean... by drunkennewfiemidget · · Score: 5, Funny

    That every installation comes with an Allen key and crappy instructions?

  2. Re:No longer possible by bigman2003 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, Windows brought MySQL to me.

    I host my site on a commercial service, and previously I was stuck with using Access as my DB, unless I wanted to pay big SQL Server bucks. My site crashed 5 or 6 times a day because of the load on the database.

    Finally my hosting service started to offer MySQL, for free...

    My site stopped crashing, and now everything loads a lot faster. (I haven't converted the entire thing over to MySQL, but enough to stop the crashing.)

    If MySQL were not free, I would not have converted. If it were not on Windows, I would not have converted.

    But now I see it as a real possibility for use at work.

    --
    No reason to lie.
  3. Enterprise features? by lowe0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when are stored procedures, triggers, and views (freaking VIEWS) enterprise features? Log shipping or automatic failover are enterprise features. Procs and views are basics.

  4. Re:Acknowledgement? by mmkkbb · · Score: 5, Funny

    No NO NO!

    PostgreSQL is the Pottery Barn of the Database market.
    McKoi and Cloudscape are Pier 1 and Crate and Barrel, respectively.

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    -mkb
  5. Is that a good thing? by jurgenaut · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would search through benchmarks and wonder, "What kind of database defines me as a person?" We used to read pornography. Now it was debug prints. I had it all. Even the opteron optimized version that can take over 2Gb / process, but it still maxes at 4Gb due to 32bit pointers - proof it were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of wherever. I am Jack's wasted memory.

  6. Re:Ikea, eh? by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 5, Funny

    And how can I deck out my house in mid-century modern MySQL? I'd like to see that.

    There's a large supply of tables to choose from. You even put them together yourself. Just name them Coffee, Kitchen, End, etc.