EnterpriseDB would like to aquire MySQL from Oracle but Oracle is not too interested to grow MySQL, which it obtained as part of its Sun Microsystems acquisition in January 2010. There are 12 million active MySQL installations today and Oracle makes a large amount of its revenue from selling its eponymous RDBMS. RDBMS is a key component of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or Perl or Python) for running web and embedded applications.
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However, in an article posted on ITJungle, the Vice President of EnterpriseDB says, “Customers are looking for ways to leave Oracle, because they can’t stand being attached to them in so many different ways. But at the same time, you’ve seen over the last couple years, and 12 months in particular, a really improved distribution, and a consistent distribution, from PostgreSQL. The last release, 9.0, came out in September, and included some really great functionality, including streaming replication and hot standby.”
“The enhancements have brought PostgreSQL functionality up to par, or even better than MySQL, for MySQL’s niche in the market,” Doherty continues. “You have a lot more capabilities on the read-write transaction applications, where MySQL kind of falls off a cliff from a performance perspective, when you have too many users or transactions. You get the best of both worlds–great read performance and great read/write performance that you wouldn’t otherwise get from MySQL.”
PostgreSQL is the database for apps on Yahoo, Skype and The Federal Aviation air traffic control system, among many others.
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