The team knew MySQL very well internally, it is not so much that MySQL did not work out, it was very nice for people who needed to grow out MySQL to jump over t

The team knew MySQL very well internally, it is not so much that MySQL did not work out, it was very nice for people who needed to grow out MySQL to jump over to InfiniDB. MySQL going from independent to Sun to Oracle changed a lot of how friendly it is to do these kind of interactions. I imagine the PostgreSQL players in MPP space such as CitusDB have done very similar things that we did with MySQL. And it is not that InfiniDB could not move away from MySQL, but that is a lateral sideways move, and has to be funded for no advancement in benefit.