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OracleDB

ziggy on 2006-02-14T15:42:39

It's official. Oracle has purchased Sleepycat, makers of BerkeleyDB.

(I wonder what other open source databases are left for Oracle to buy...)

Doom for MySQL

merlyn on 2006-02-14T16:07:51

This is the other leg that MySQL had to stand on for a transaction-savvy table, after Oracle purchased the makers of their primary technology, InnoDB.

"The other shoe has dropped."

Time to start learning PostgreSQL, and migrating.

Re:Doom for MySQL

ziggy on 2006-02-14T16:13:50

Bah. Those crafty Finnish Swedes (or are they Swedish Finns?) surely have a few more tricks up their sleeves. If anything, this is a hit to MySQL the company, not MySQL the product or MySQL the project.

Re:Doom for MySQL

stu42j on 2006-02-14T17:02:34

Perhaps someone could port PostgreSQL to a MySQL Storage Engine.