The answer to most of these questions is "no." But that said, if the proprietary DB is only used as a data store via ODBC or JDBC, then yes, migration is possible.
Stability and availability is a completely different story, however... just because something is possible, doesn't mean it should be done. :-) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ariz Jacinto <[email protected]> wrote: > > FTA: > http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/19/migrating-us-government-applications-from-oracle-to-mysql/ > > " [...] > > Here are samples of the questions I heard: > > Does MySQL provide encryption comparable to Oracle? > Can MySQL reach into Oracle to get legacy data? > Is there something comparable to Oracle Forms? > Can I embed MySQL into remote devices in the field? What license do I need > to do that? > Can I store JPEG and TIFF images in MySQL? > Can I extend the stored procedure language to be PL/SQL compatible? > Does MySQL have multi-byte character set support? > What level of governance does MySQL have over third-party development? > How does MySQL incorporate features back from the community? > What is the best reliable source of information about differences between > the community and enterprise versions of the server? > In terms of high availability, how does MySQL compare to Oracle RAC? > Can I do ETL of 400GB of data per hour into MySQL? > Does MySQL Enterprise have additional scalability over MySQL Community? > Are MySQL Migration tools free? What about for migration from Sybase? > Does MySQL not checksum its own data? > Is there any comparison to be drawn to migration from other opensource > databases to MySQL? > Is there any way to store strings with trailing spaces in MySQL? > Is DDL replicated? > Are there any workarounds for the blocking nature of ALTER TABLE? What about > in MySQL Cluster? > Is MySQL Cluster shared-everything or shared-nothing? > Oracle makes it tedious to keep up with patches. Is MySQL Enterprise easier? > Can I get alerts about them? Are they all aggregated together? > I'm on the Community version and I have an Enterprise subscription. Do I > have to upgrade to the Enterprise version of MySQL Server? > If I have a third-party SNMP monitoring tool, can MySQL Enterprise send SNMP > traps to it? > Does MySQL Enterprise Gold include replication functionality? > > [...] " > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
