Open Database Alliance hedges against Oracle plans for MySQL

Article Source Ars Technica
May 14, 2009, 8:51 am

Oracle's recent move to acquire Sun has placed the responsibility for advancing MySQL development into the hands of the project's most prominent competitor. The move is of deep concern to MySQL stakeholders and has created some uncertainty about the future of the popular open source database system.

Some key developers in the MySQL community are launching a new coalition called the Open Database Alliance which intends to coordinate collaborative MySQL development. The alliance—which currently consists of Monty Program Ab, Percona, and OpenQuery—aims to provide an inclusive, vendor-neutral environment for moving forward MySQL development. Their efforts will attempt to insulate MySQL from Oracle's competitive interests by giving the collective MySQL community enough leverage to control the project's destiny.

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written by Sardorbek Pulatov, May 14, 2009

Thank you for the news ... imho it will improve MySQL somehow

PostgreSQL
written by Bill Day, May 15, 2009

Wouldn't the community be better off directing its resources toward the development of PostgreSQL? Competitive, standards compliant, and free.

Re: Bill Day: PostgreSQL
written by Thom Brown, May 16, 2009

While my personal opinion of PostgreSQL is that of being a far more competent and capable RBDMS, it's still good to have a selection out there. PG doesn't currently have a flexible enough set of tools for replication (although 8.4 looks like it will solve that) so some may still wish to stick with it for now.

Of course, I certainly wouldn't want to discourage anyone from migrating to Postgres.

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written by xenix, May 17, 2009

That was a great thing..
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Thanks for all..

Re: Thom Brown: Re: Bill Day: PostgreSQL
written by Ryan Behrens, May 18, 2009

Unfortunately PostgreSQL isn't an option for a lot of commercial applications that claim support for open source databases. Most the applications that I manage have 3 options for Databases, Oracle, MSSQL or MySQL. So for cost reasons (Being the primary reason) we choose to go with open source, and use MySQL. It would be great though if Postgre gained a larger foothold, more choices for everyone!