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Probably because there has been a lot of development in distributed databases in the last few years. Raft is fairly new, for one. Taking really old code and tr

Probably because there has been a lot of development in distributed databases in the last few years. Raft is fairly new, for one. Taking really old code and trying to make it do new things is very very hard. After you've invested all that time and effort making mysql better, it's still a database owned by oracle. Think how Java would have turned out if Sun made it to be cross compiled to C rather than run in a VM.

ClayFerguson 10y ago
I haven't seen the codebase of MySQL, but it's open source and not "owned" by Oracle. The only reason anyone should want to start over is if that codebase itself was crappy code. I bet it isn't. Implementations of a robust RDBMS takes decades. MySQL is very mature. That doesn't act against it, it acts in favor of it. The better analogy is Linux. I'd be more likely to say "Linux is bad because of age" long before I'd ever say "MySQL is bad only due to age." There are plenty of examples in the Language world also: Go, Rust, etc. All those new languages SHOULD have built on top of Java, for the same reason Mongo should have built on top of MySQL. BTW, Java DID leverage C++. The Java compiler IS written in C. Mongo didn't use any part of MySQL, but Java uses EVERY part of C.
- davidbanham 10y ago
  Build Rust on top of the JVM? Buddy, you're a long way out to sea on that one.
  - ClayFerguson 10y ago
    Yeah, you are taking that sentence too literally. What I mean is we don't need a new language created every week. Java is already perfectly fine, and IF somebody finds something Java can't do, they shouldn't start from scratch and create a new language, but instead build and improve on what already exists: Java. It's like you can either stand on the shoulders of giants or you can start out at dirt level. I don't like starting back in the dirt. Not to mention the fact that every time somebody reinvents an already existing wheel, they just fragment the industry, because half the script-kiddies out there (not knowing any better) will simply jump on the bandwagon of whatever language most recently went viral. The Sisyphus approach to technological advancement.

ClayFerguson 10y ago

I haven't seen the codebase of MySQL, but it's open source and not "owned" by Oracle. The only reason anyone should want to start over is if that codebase itself was crappy code. I bet it isn't. Implementations of a robust RDBMS takes decades. MySQL is very mature. That doesn't act against it, it acts in favor of it. The better analogy is Linux. I'd be more likely to say "Linux is bad because of age" long before I'd ever say "MySQL is bad only due to age." There are plenty of examples in the Language world also: Go, Rust, etc. All those new languages SHOULD have built on top of Java, for the same reason Mongo should have built on top of MySQL. BTW, Java DID leverage C++. The Java compiler IS written in C. Mongo didn't use any part of MySQL, but Java uses EVERY part of C.

davidbanham 10y ago
Build Rust on top of the JVM? Buddy, you're a long way out to sea on that one.
- ClayFerguson 10y ago
  Yeah, you are taking that sentence too literally. What I mean is we don't need a new language created every week. Java is already perfectly fine, and IF somebody finds something Java can't do, they shouldn't start from scratch and create a new language, but instead build and improve on what already exists: Java. It's like you can either stand on the shoulders of giants or you can start out at dirt level. I don't like starting back in the dirt. Not to mention the fact that every time somebody reinvents an already existing wheel, they just fragment the industry, because half the script-kiddies out there (not knowing any better) will simply jump on the bandwagon of whatever language most recently went viral. The Sisyphus approach to technological advancement.