Hi! > I'm not trying to start a flame war, so I'll keep it brief...
Me neither. > I'm not that jazzed about this. Why? Well, I can't even figure out I am, its huge step from closed source. I've been trying to get my hands on this software for some time but couldn't - Now I can. > 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 Well, the ICE hasn't got DELETE UPDATE INSERT. Loading data is done through LOAD DATA INFILE (which has been modified in the infobright version - syntax is the similar or the same, implementation is different). The subscription paid for loader facility is claimed to be faster but I don't know what that's based on. > 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 :) I am pretty sure they have talked about business models, I am not sure how much those talks involved community contribution processes. > It might be interesting to take a look at how column storage is built, though. Well, I think its important to recognize its not just an ordinary storage engine but 'with column storage'. I can't judge it in technical detail but I got the impression their architecture and metadata are so different that they really need a different kind of optimizer too. On a more general note - that would be an interesting experiment for drizzle - how to make the plugin system so that you can not only plug in storage, but also change the parser to properly address the features brought by that particular SE and the optimizer smarts to actually take advantage of a particular engine. > It is nice that they GPLed it instead of rolling their own license. > But there's still that contributor agreement. Gah. This is probably the direct consequence of their subscription offering. (I am not saying this is good or bad, nor offering any business model alternatives - just hypothesizing how it relates) kind regards, Roland > > 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 > -- Roland Bouman http://rpbouman.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
