Hi Denis, As you know, some time ago I've started a discussion about removing dependence from gridgain:shmem. Ignite community seems to be not so much interested in this removal, for now. So once added it could stay here forever. Reverse dependency direction seems to be more natural. It is like the open-core model.
I feel more comfortable if all Ignite dependencies are released as part of the Ignite code base, or some open governed project with a license from Category A https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html. It is true that H2 has Category B license, so derivative can't be committed into ASF repository. What if we consult with le...@apache.org to find additional ways to donate forked version into ASF codebase? We anyway need their approval because gridgain/h2 has a non-standard license, so we should approve including non-standard licensed component it the product. Sincerely, Dmitriy Pavlov чт, 4 июл. 2019 г. в 18:57, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org>: > Hi Igniters, > > As you know, Ignite SQL engine is tightly coupled with the H2 database that > provides basic parsing and query execution capabilities. This synergy has > worked well for a while until Ignite SQL engine got a much broader adoption > for all sort of use cases. > > Presently, there is a list of impactful issues and limitations related to > memory management, distributed engine optimization, and queries planning > that require changes in H2. We've tried to contribute to H2 directly with > no significant luck - what's needed for our distributed engine is of no > interest to H2 community. At the same time, we can't leave the things as > is, as long as these limitations keep Ignite SQL engine from gradual > evolution. > > As a solution, we created an H2 fork [1] and did all of the required > changes there. We would be happy to include the fork into Ignite source > base, but H2's license (available under dual MPL 2.0 and EPL 1.0) is not > compliant with Apache 2.0. However, if Ignite starts using our maven > artifacts instead of the standard H2's ones, then the licensing issue is > solved. > > Is the community ready to accept this solution and swap the standard H2 > artifact with the one prepared by GridGain? Presently, all of those > improvements are available to GridGain customers, but GridGain wants to > make all of them be available for Ignite community. And that's the only > legal way we've come up with... > > > [1] https://github.com/gridgain/gridgain/tree/master/modules/h2 > > > > -- > - > Denis >
