[FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

[Marcus Daniels]

Robert writes:

“Remember that Oracle acquired MySQL.  It is now a free product (likely with no meaningful updates, not sure) but with an option to upgrade to supported Oracle extensions at a premium.”

MySQL is distributed under the General Public License, so all it takes is someone to fork it and distribute their own version, like MariaDB.
Such a group can take whatever work Oracle does on the core and put it in their fork.
Finding a motivation and money to do that is the problem.  I haven’t used either for years because I came to the conclusion that Postgres was better.
And if you want small and fast, there’s Sqlite3.

Marcus
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