Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> MySQL to drop Berkeley DB storage engine, add memcache plugin
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> | With the 5.1.12 release, MySQL will be dropping the Berkeley DB (BDB)
> | storage engine from its list of supported database engines. Some
> | observers have suggested that this move is connected to Oracle's
> | purchase of Sleepycat, and that InnoDB may be next.
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> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/30/2151251
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> Only yesterday I mentioned Oracle's 'elimination' of BerkelyDB. One
> wonders if other rich companies like Google and Microsoft can
> extinguish/subvert threats using the same strategy (e.g. XenSource).
Looks like a self imposed shot gun wound in the foot by mysql. Berkeley is
still a very popular database format.
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