Database recommendations?

[f33dm3bits]

Oracle owns MySQL as well, for those who do not know. As I recall, that's why we have LibreOffice. That same deal included OpenOffice. So, it got forked. It was a SUN thing.

Don't you mean that MySQL was forked as MariaDB?

 

[Diputs]

Oracle...

As has been said by people less kind than myself:

One Raging A**hole Called Larry Ellison

Before you laugh it off, I have personal reasons to be annoyed. My company hired them to incorporate their product into our systems. They failed to do so. We gave them additional time, a lot of it. They failed to do so. I kicked them out for breach of contract - and because my employees were tired of dealing with them.

So, Oracle sued me.

We won but ended up paying all the legal fees.

Oracle owns MySQL as well, for those who do not know. As I recall, that's why we have LibreOffice. That same deal included OpenOffice. So, it got forked. It was a SUN thing.

You may be right, and you can replace Oracle with ANY other vendor and still have a true story.

Also replace Larry's name, in that case.

 

[KGIII]

Don't you mean that MySQL was forked as MariaDB?

That also came out of the turmoil, as memory serves. They acquired Sun Microsystems. Which is why we have LibreOffice, among other things. Oracle, and rightfully so, didn't really have a great reputation. It has improved some. I do like their VIrtualBox.

 

[dos2unix]

I use MySQL

So really you're using an Oracle product.

 

[KGIII]

So really you're using an Oracle product.

Yeah, I know. I also use VirtualBox.

 

[Diputs]

Oracle also owns Java

 

[gvisoc]

I am curious as to why Microsoft SQL Server on Linux is not an option. I have successfully run many installations of MSSQL on containers using Linux images, and there's no problem on using their agents, I did for stuff like publishing changes to Apache Kafka using CDC and debezium.

Alas, otherwise I am supportive of the PostgreSQL option. That's usually my go to when I am working on the next pet project I will leave uncompleted to die.

 

[gvisoc]

Although it's an offtopic on this thread, "Oracle also owns Java" is an overstatement. The situation was a bit blurry after Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2009/2010, but the Java Virtual Machine was already free software since 2007, in full.

Currently, Oracle may own the trademark (not even sure about that), but it's not even the reference implementation (it is the OpenJDK, which is free software) nor owns the development process of the language, which is community driven (see JCP).

Let's say that if Oracle had a tantrum we'd only have to rename the think to Jovo and keep moving.

 

[Diputs]

Yes, true, but legally, Oracle owns Java ,,, end of story.