OT: Open Source Threats to Oracle Database Hegemony

I echo your PostgreSQL sentiments. It performed nicely on a Perl::DBI benchmark routine I developed and MySQL/InnoDB still seemed to get bogged down with intense transaction activity. Oracle outperformed them both but $'s/transaction is a viable metric too. I doubt the open source stuff will ever be as powerful as Oracle but most shops don't need its power or use more than a fraction of its functionality. I'm hoping the most positive side effect of open source database competition is a significant reduction of Oracle license costs.

We had some MySQL dudes here 2 weeks ago and they have very ambitious plans. Leave to the open source community to enable the proliferation of the weapons of mass datamation.

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Vishnu

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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:28 PM To: Orr, Steve; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Steve,

    I'd say IF. Reason is that MySql has a commercial company behind it and it appears that they see $$$$ looming in the near future. Their licensing costs have risen in the last 3 months. Granted their a pile cheaper than Oracle (correction, make that a mountain), but as always if there's a buck to be made.... Personally I prefer PostGreSql, which happens to be the direction our WEB master wants to head off on.

Dick Goulet

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Author: "Orr; Steve" <sorr_at_rightnow.com>
Date:       2/13/2003 9:08 AM

For me the question is not "If?" but "When?"

Any prognostications?

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Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 9:54 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Mark my words, it will happen.

...The MySQL part, not the outsourcing part. :)

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Jared.Still_at_radisys.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

If MySql continues as planned, I think Oracle will find it a force to be reckoned with, much as MS has discovered to be true about Linux.

Of course by that time, according to the latest IT business intelligence as seen in Computer World, most of our jobs will have been outsourced by then, and it wont' matter much.

Jared

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A question for the DBA Gods on this list: Is it worth the time/effort to download MySQL and learn it? Is there going to be a viable (meaning $$) market for the product in the future? Or should I leave all the egg$ in the Oracle basket?

Musing for fun and profit.

Rick Weiss

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Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

MS SQL costing less than Oracle is only partly true.

If you load up MS with the extras that constitute a std feature set on Oracle, Oracle is very competitive.

Been lots of comparisons on that.

Now PostgreSQL and MySQL, those *are* less expensize than MS SQL and Oracle. :)

Jared

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