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@xrevan86 @clacke Years ago, #InnoDB was produced by an independent company, just as #Sleepycat (BerkeleyDB ... BDB engine) was. I don't know if it was possible to use InnoDB separately from #MySQL even then. #Oracle bought Sleepycat and then Inno, and finally #Sun.
I've been using it for somewhere around 20 years (+/-2 years), having encountered it in a college course (replacing Hughes #MiniSQL).
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@clacke "Sounds like Oracle had been eyeing MySQL for far longer than I realized. Would they have even bought Sun if it weren't for MySQL?
Is that even why Sun bought MySQL?"
I'm sure that had something to do with why #MySQL became available for Sun to buy.
First came the #Sleepycat purchase (followed by removal of the #BDB engine), then the #Innobase ( #InnoDB engine ) purchase, then #Sun purchased MySQL, then #IBM rejected Sun's attempt to get purchased, then Oracle purchased #Sun (along with its parts and products ... #Java, #Solaris, MySQL, and so on).
By the way, whenever I need a MySQL compatible database, I select #MariaDB, to avoid #Oracle.
Sort of off-topic: Do you remember when MySQL had a distribution deal for an open source version of SAPDB named MaxDB? It didn't seem to last long (a year or two?). I'm sure sales were much lower than SAP expected.