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I think the FoundationDB acquisition by a company with no interest in selling enterprise products was an anomaly. A popular, commercial enterprise storage syste
by capkutay 11y ago
I think the FoundationDB acquisition by a company with no interest in selling enterprise products was an anomaly. A popular, commercial enterprise storage system that actually makes money would be an acquisition target from the likes or Oracle, SAP, EMC, etc...in that scenario, the acquiring company would have significant interest to increase adoption of the product and maintain the developer community versus completely shutting the product down.
- willvarfar 11y agoYou mean like Oracle with MySQL? At least in that case the 'community' could move to MariaDB, which is not an option for non-Free databases like MemSQL.
- ericfrenkiel 11y agoyou can do the very same - MemSQL uses the MySQL-wire protocol so it works with any MySQL driver and tool.
- lukaslalinsky 11y agoIf MySQL was a drop-in replacement for MemSQL, you wouldn't need MemSQL in the first place. The reason you chose MemSQL is probably because it offers something that MySQL doesn't. If I can't take the source and continue using the product, it's a very different situation from MySQL/Oracle.