Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:26:14 -0700
Message-ID: <1129487173.289575@yasure>

Paul wrote:

> Patents for MVCC? That would indeed suprise me.

Microsoft is trying to patent FAT: Nothing suprises me anymore.
>

>> From what I've seen of SQL Server 2005 Microsoft's methodology is not a
>>clone ... as they appear to eat massive amounts of CPU to do what Oracle
>>does with grace and ease.

>
> Or that Interbase/Firebird does on vastly less amounts of CPU than
> Oracle does?

Measured how? I've never seen any published metrics and as far as I know Interbase/Firebird has negligible internal instrumentation.

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