Mysql preso for Com 585
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MySQL: Dominant Database, Open Forever?
James Taylor
Com 585 Fall 2012
World's Most Popular Open Source Database
• 5/23/1995
• OS Compatibility: Cross-platform
• Built: LAMP software stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL,Perl/PHP/Python)
Ubiquitous
• Software
• Web
“persistent storage technology behind most Twitter data: the interest graph, timelines, user data and the Tweets themselves.”
Benefits & Use Cases • Small/Medium scale single-server
deployments + Free
simple, fast, stable, free(ish), ubiquitous
Specs
• Freemium Model
• Command-line tools -or- front-end tools
• Source Code - or - Binary package
• Cloud
Complaints & Controversy:
• Ownership
• Support
• Popular Alternative
”…no problem, until their favorite sites using this opensource technology are forced to migrate to a paid database solution."
Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL
• http://www.mysql.com/products/
• http://comments.apreche.net/156/mysql-is-great-haters-gonna-hate/
• http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/oracle-makes-more-moves-to-kill-open-source-mysql/
• http://muxo.co/is-mysql-dead/