Robert writes: “Remember that Oracle acquired MySQL. It is now a free product (likely with no meaningful updates, not sure) but with an option to upgrade to supported Oracle extensions at a premium.”
MySQL is distributed under the General Public License, so all it takes is someone to fork it and distribute their own version, like MariaDB. Such a group can take whatever work Oracle does on the core and put it in their fork. Finding a motivation and money to do that is the problem. I haven’t used either for years because I came to the conclusion that Postgres was better. And if you want small and fast, there’s Sqlite3. Marcus
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