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Oracle May 'Fork Itself' With MySQL Moves
New submitter packetrat writes "Ars Technica analyzes the recent commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and the additional unrest it's added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-source alternatives."
It's OurSQL now, freetards.
...that happens with everything Oracle touches. MySQL users will switch to MariaDB just as OO.org users switched to LibreOffice.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
...and any other OS without package management
Most Linux distros will simply just point the mysql packages to mariadb (or whatever fork), and end-users will not have to do (or know) anything
Upgrade, continue as usual, and wonder why the windows people are jumping up & down...
What kind of functionality do you want that PostgreSQL can't provide?
Oracle offers some added value if you need it. If you are stuck on mysql for some reason and you project outgrew what the free verions handles, it may be reasonable to pay some money for well defined support of new features.
If you don't need it (and that applies to me and most people here), then just happily use the free version. If you are not convinced the support for the new features is worth the money, then don't buy it.
So, yes, oracle may have forked it. They are neither the first company to do something like this (see ghostscript) nor will they be the last. History shows that usually the commercial "value-added" distribution may be marginal in the installed base, but if the company plays the cards right its customers and the company can profit from the commercial version.
Job security: corrupted MyISAM/InnoDB, senseless tuning, corrupted replication all ensure lasting employment.
No, Oracle. Another example of where you're not listening to the community. We told you to go "fuck" yourself.
He's NOT using an alternative name for open source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_core
"Open core (a.k.a. proprietary relicensing[1]) is a business model where an open source product is also made available commercially with non-open-source additions. The name "open core" came into use in early 2010 but the business model had already existed for many years."
"open core" is mentioned in the article. To be honest, it's the first I've heard of it too, but it's a pretty good name for this model.
Insightful? I have no clue what features is he talking about (and I guess I'm not alone), but there are solutions far better than MySQL. If you check what was commercialized, you can see it's damn damn basic functionality (e.g. the ability to use PAM authentication, or the features of MySQL Enterprise Backup). But the infinitely more important question for all MySQL users should be "What will be commercialized in the future?"
And that's not FUD, that's a question everyone should ask before using any product (not just MySQL).
Post - gress - skwull. Ain't that hard :P . At least they didn't name it after some obscure dodecasyllabic Aztec god.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
In most database systems the join order matters, especially if you use ansi style syntax. This is a known way to improve query performance. Order the joins to so that you limit as much as possible the number of rows returned early on; and as simply as possible using highly selective queries where the columns involved in the join has either unique or a high percentage of unique values (>90%). Then place the more complex/less selective joins (i.e. on columns with less unique values) or any necessary subqueries following. I'm surprise you never noticed this in MySQL, or perhaps you were using non-ansi style queries.
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Why do tech-minded people always seem to need to create obtuse and obviously false exaggerations for the purpose of conveying their point? Use your words and say what you mean.
Posts like this don't make you look clever, they make you look like a caricature.
There are plenty of ways to administer the free version of MySQL to get very good performance and options. Just because you have not been able to do that does not mean it cannot be done.
I think the point that was being made, however, was that if you want to put in that much effort, why wouldn't you use a database like Postgres that actually was built for you to do that?
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At least they didn't name it after some obscure dodecasyllabic Aztec god.
There's no such concept. According to Wikipedia the longest name is: "Itztlacoliuhqui-Ixquimilli - god of stone, obsidian, coldness hardness, and castigation. Aspect of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli"
Refs:
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/aztec-mythology.php?_gods-list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mythology