On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Brian Aker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Infobright, which is a storage engine partner for Sun, has open sourced > their storage engine. It is a column store engine and their version of MySQL > has some enhancements for the optimizer. The value for us is probably not > high, I expect it would be a lot of effort to port it since they use a > forked version of the server (more radical in certain regards then our own). > It might be interesting to poke through if someone wants to undertake > creating a diff.
I'm not trying to start a flame war, so I'll keep it brief... I'm not that jazzed about this. Why? Well, I can't even figure out what the diff between the opensource version and the commercial version is. I saw one brief mention that the commercial version has more features, which just smells like crippleware. And all the stuff about how this is going to create an active community of contributors... you'd think they would have at least talked to MySQL/Sun to get some idea of how well that works :) It might be interesting to take a look at how column storage is built, though. It is nice that they GPLed it instead of rolling their own license. But there's still that contributor agreement. Gah. Baron _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
