If you decide to use it, you should read all the terms. No idea how long ${NYSE[ORCL]} will offer this, nor whether they would grandfather existing users if and when they decided to end the free plan.
@musicman I’ve mostly stayed away from the #Java world the last few years. A combination of not being allowed to use it at work and seeing what #Oracle is doing to anyone that is immersed in that ecosystem.
But back in the day, I remember experimenting with McKoi and Apache Derby as part of a Java based help desk app I was writing.
Oracle eventually contributed the Hudson project, trademarks, and other “IP” to the #Eclipse Foundation, but failed to win back the community. The project was relicensed from #LGPL to Eclipse Public License, but that also failed to shift the momentum from Jenkins to Hudson. By 2016 or 2017, the Hudson project announced its demise.
Is the #MySQL #JDBC mysql-connector-j driver very different from the #MariaDB version? I would expect that they try to stay pretty close to upstream, so that their software is easily inserted in place of #Oracle MySQL.
@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.
@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).
@dragnucs Oh, I've never touched JBoss, so no idea how easy or hard it is to set up.
I am wondering whether #Oracle's #Java licensing push is going to kill the #JEE market except for inside the very largest corporations. I cannot imagine a medium sized organization that would want to risk a lawyer letter from ORCL.
@moonman I'm not thrilled with any of the current databases. A few months back, $EMPLOYER had a big #Oracle upgrade (involving teams from several well-known vendors) that went all weekend, failed, and had to be rolled back (successfully retried on a 3-day weekend).