I did some research to find that a lot of companies are looking to move away from Oracle MySQL and there are alot of alternatives out there to pick from. My personal thoughts were dismay at the thought that Oracle want to try and charge for MySQL, but indirectly using features as a revenue source. One thing I have always liked is that MySQL is open source and companies produce open-source tools for it:
"Oracle has stirred discontent in the MySQL community when
the company
shifted the development model away from a fully open-source approach to an
"open core," with new enterprise features offered under a commercial
license only."
Also in recent news -
Red Hat to ditch MySQL for MariaDB in RHEL 7
This
company have shown a particular interest in MariaDB and Percona
Server. Both companies have a cluster product and look to be interested
in keeping MySQL open-source. The new version of MariaDB (version
10.0) looks very promising with good performance and rich features.
Percona on the other hand comes fully loaded with a toolkit to help
administration and a non-blocking hot backup solution. The
considerations currently are the backup and recovery options, upgrades and
compatibilities from Oracle MySQL to another database and finding a support vendor for those
problems that need a fast resolution.
Oracle
do provide some good tools for Oracle MySQL particularly MySQL
Enterprise Backup and MySQL Enterprise Monitor but these comes free as
part of the enterprise license. Will there come a point when Oracle will charge for individual options? The Oracle MySQL support is excellent,
most of my calls are resolved fully and in a timely manner. I am happy to sing there praises as it is a company that treat support as a real service. I will miss
it, but it strikes me as a risk to start trying to make money in this
manner, but I guess there is always the community edition, with no
support from Oracle (but maybe from another vendor).
Whilst
moving away from Oracle MySQL looks to be a serious consideration for
some companies with licensing and cost speculation. Companies will have
to pay one way or another or can we live with the risk of not having
support at all? I can't help but think Oracle are changing the rules
regarding MySQL and that can be dangerous as people have other serious options
to consider.
Percona Server
MariaDB
Drizzle
SQLite
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
CouchDB
etc
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