Now, it’s
time to stop graving at Oracle’s way of handing MySQL. Under
Oracle’s stewardship, the open-source database has been enhanced in
the last couple of years as per the Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev.
In the year
2006, Percona was set by a group of fromer MySQL staff and it sells
MySQL services like consultancy, support and training. After two
years, Sun Microsystems purchased MySQL for $1bn that in turn was
bought by Oracle for $7.4bn in 2010.
After that,
some original creators of database had already left to produce the
MariaDB fork. Conjecture has surfaced about the company’s purposes
for the project since the beginning of Oracle’s ownership of the
database.
Disapproval
has quoted security as an instance with some of the suggestions of
slower responses to critical bug fixes and very few amount of
information about the vulnerabilities and critical-patch updates.
Zaitsev
said, “The MySQL community right now is in this very interesting
state because after Oracle acquired MySQL there's always been some
FUD about Oracle looking to kill MySQL”.
"We've
been watching that for about five years and I can say Oracle has put
in a lot of engineering resources. From my standpoint the revisions
they've done and their work has been much better quality-wise than it
was before."
Zaitsev said
he liked the current engineering focus in MySQL, which he described
as making MySQL better suited to working with modern applications.
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Zaitsev said
that he loved the current engineering foucs in MySQL that he
described as making MySQL better suited to work with modern
applications.
He said,
“Before that MySQL tried to be everything and frankly there have
been a lot of quality issues with that. Now there's a lot of focus on
the people who are using MySQL right now working on modern
applications. So what are their needs? Those guys are not necessarily
people who will go and write stored procedures in Java - they
just won't”.
"These
are the guys who need some other things: very easy to maintain, to
integrate and in things like OpenStack they need queries very
quickly, scale to multicores. That's where MySQL has been focusing
over the past few years under Oracle's guidance."
Currently,
MySQL is the second most well-known database in use as per the
DB-Engines Ranking. It is a main element of the LAMP Linux, Apache
HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP open-source web development stack.
MySQL is the
second most popular database in use, according the DB-Engines
Ranking, and is a key element of the LAMP —
Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL, PHP —
open-source web development stack.
The sources
of the attitudes to Oracle lie in the historical relationship between
MySQL as well as the software giant, according to Zaitsev.
He also
added, “I worked on MySQL and obviously Oracle was the arc enemy
for us. We were out there to go and try and displace those guys, to
replace Oracle as the main database. That was the message for the
company. Now what has happened is you actually have to marry your
enemy”.
"A lot
of people left and they've been very hostile about Oracle: 'They were
the bad guys, the enemy. Now they own MySQL what are they going to
do? They're going to kill it so they don't have the competition'.
That's very flawed thinking because you can say many things about the
Oracle guys but they're not stupid.
"For
Oracle, if there is to be a leading open-source relational database,
they would much rather that it's MySQL rather than, say, PostgreSQL
or something else."
These days,
there are lots of companies that find open source as a positive
attribute as it represents an absence of vendor lock-in especially in
the cloud.
On this
Zaitsev said “It's important from a security standpoint not to have
that lock-in in the licences. But what's also very important, with
the cloud, we can see that there are other vendor lock-ins as well.
So, for example, you may be running MySQL but if you're running that
on the Amazon cloud, you are locked into that specific vendor for all
practical purposes because of their API," Zaitsev said.
We all know
about the MySQL’s qualities as it still comes up short against
NoSQL databases in the particular areas.
“However,
if you have no schema, you can arrange things like my teenage son
arranges his bedroom. He puts everything in a large pile in the
centre. It's very convenient because he doesn't have to sort through
things but it doesn't scale. After a few weeks of doing that, he
can't find stuff anymore."
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