The “Break it Down” Blog

Sun to Begin Closing up MySQL Source Code

Uh-oh, Spaghettio’s! Looks like Sun is going to start closing up some of the open source portions of MySQL, namely the more advanced functionality and the backup solutions that are currently open sourced. Can you blame them? They paid a goddamn billion for MySQL, it’s not too surprising that they want to create some value-add [...]

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MySQL Windows Binaries No Longer Free

Interesting. It seems the MySQL group is continuing to shrink the binaries they provide for platforms, now Windows, with the excuse of “Hey, it’s open source, go build your own binary”. I think this will give a much-deserved shot in the arm to the PostgreSQL folks for the hell of a Oracle-clone database they have created.

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PostgreSQL compared to MySQL 4.1 and 5.0

Ran across a fairly good tabular comparison of PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.1/5.0. I’ve personally always held the belief that a good way to determine which one you should use is to ask yourself: Do you want Oracle or MS SQL Server without the commercial prices? NO: Using MySQL is fine YES: Use PostgreSQL Do you plan on coding all [...]

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