[Ilugc] myswl a cripleware?
- From: metherid@xxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:16:18 +0530
On 09/29/2011 10:02 PM, Christopher Sagayam wrote:
" About the only choice now is for the FOSS community to make the same moves
with MySQL as we made with OpenOffice."
So why not do it ? and make MySQL opensource forever !
If you want alternatives, there is already quite a few. MariaDB,
Drizzle are MySQL based. PostgreSQL is a mature alternative as well.
In some cases, the nosql databases such as couchdb and mongodb can be a
good option too. There is no shortage of choices however MySQL as a
brand has a lot of name recognition and Oracle's move is essentially to
monetize it more by making the db semi proprietary. This isn't
surprising considering the history of MySQL which has dabbled with
proprietary extensions for a long time now.
My suggestion: Use Postgres.
Rahul
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