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MySQL to Adopt Solid Storage Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the solid-gone-baby dept.

hmart writes "As seen on ZDNet's Open Source Blog MySQL is taking another step to defend from Oracle's recent acquisitions of InnoBase and Sleepycat. From the article: 'MySQL responds by getting Solid Information Technology, a proprietary database vendor, to take its solidDB Storage Engine for MySQL open source, under the GPL, starting in June.'"

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  1. Re:This is good news by Antony+T+Curtis · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyway, on a lighter note, this new engine looks pretty hot, and like it could take MySQL in a lot of directions that I never really foresaw it going.


    I think it would be fun to make MySQL as versatile as possible with a huge choice of plug-ins available. Sort of like what Linux is for operating systems but for databases instead. MySQL is platform agnostic and want it to perform well everywhere, including Microsoft Windows and even... SCO (hey, its not their customer's fault).

    If there is anyone out there which has some kind of data storage/retreval system, I am sure that MySQL would be happy to assist and encourage them to make it into a storage engine for MySQL. If they want to GPL their code and join the open-source party, I am sure MySQL would be happy to help in that too.
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    No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.