We want the MySQL server to be: - The best and the most used database in the world
It is surely one of the most used databases, and MySQL was evolving into a database with more reasonable features with each version, so why do you do some kind of "restart" by using SAP DB?
What about the "best database in the world" ?
To my knowledge, that concepts behind the O in ORDBMS are "state of the art" and think that these are worth it to be included in a new database-product.
- Continuously improved while remaining fast and safe
"safe" might conflict with "fast". Often MySQL users asked, why SAPDB is so slow on INSERTs - the reason is clear, because it does it's job well, and flushes the data to disk on every COMMIT.
- Fun to use and improve
???
- Free from bugs
Are you kidding? No Software is Bug Free (except for TeX ;-) ).
In the last few days, valid concerns have been raised about the possible negative effects of the agreement between SAP and MySQL. Over the next few weeks, we will be working on addressing these concerns.
Imagine, you would want to buy a car. This car is build by a company, that is knows for buidling good cars, and now you hear, that this car won't be available again, but there is a successor which is build by a company that is known for building much simpler cars.
Would you buy that new car? I guess not.
Our belief is that you, the SAP DB community, and we, MySQL AB, together can grow the SAP DB market from the foundations laid by SAP and its predecessors.
All we hope - or at least i do - is that the "MySQL SAPDB" and the successor of SAPDB will be as good or even better than SAPDB it is now.
I still don't know, if this new product will be build on base of the SAPDB sources, or if it will be a completly new product (restarting from scratch or with the current MySQL sources.)
I like many things about the current SAPDB - the installer - installing many kernel-versions on one machine (some host/port etc.) - support for UNICODE (although some features are missing) - a management-application like DBMGUI - a query-tool like SQLStudio
All tools should be cross-platform UNIX/Windows.
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