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/